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> Unfortunately, as with the other error handling ideas, this new proposal was also quickly overrun with comments and many suggestions for minor tweaks, often based on individual preferences. Ian closed the proposal and moved the content into a discussion to facilitate the conversation and to collect further feedback. A slightly modified version was received a bit more positively but broad support remained elusive.

> After so many years of trying, with three full-fledged proposals by the Go team and literally hundreds (!) of community proposals, most of them variations on a theme, all of which failed to attract sufficient (let alone overwhelming) support, the question we now face is: how to proceed? Should we proceed at all?

> We think not.