alt Hacker NewsThankfully repetitive language is less of a problem now that we have AI. The current syntax is just "add error handling to this function" :)
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You're getting downvoted, but this was what tptacek basically wrote about. Key points from his blog are that LLMs are good at tedium, and Go's structure is highly repetitive and amenable to LLM generation. The error handling tedium is probably part of why it's highly repetitive.
> I work mostly in Go. I’m confident the designers of the Go programming language didn’t set out to produce the most LLM-legible language in the industry. They succeeded nonetheless Go has just enough type safety, an extensive standard library, and a culture that prizes (often repetitive) idiom. LLMs kick ass generating it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44163063 - 2386 comments
Writing it was never the problem if you're using proper tools, e.g. an actual IDE (IDEA does fine), or at least a snippet manager for your text editor. Inserting a wrapping error handling snippet requires two key presses.
It's reviewing mountains of that crap that's the problem, especially if there are non-trivial cases hidden in there, like returning the error when `err == nil` (mentioned by others in this thread).