alt Hacker News> They know from developer surveys that verbose and repetitive error handling is literally the number 1 issue.
Agreement on a problem does not imply agreement on a solution.
It's not about perfection. It's about not having a solution that gets anywhere near a majority approval.
Let's say your neighborhood has an empty plot of land owned by the city that is currently a pile of broken chunks of concrete, trash, and tangled wire. It's easy to imagine that there is unanimous agreement by everyone in the neighborhood that something better should be placed there.
But the parents want a playground, the pet owners want a dog park, the homeless advocates want a shelter, the nature lovers want a forest, etc. None of them will agree to spend their tax dollars on a solution that is useless to them, so no solution wins even though they all want the problem solved.
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>It's about not having a solution that gets anywhere near a majority approval.
You'll never get it in any non-gamed environment.
In democratic voting in FPtP systems if there isn't a majority winner you'll take the top two and go to runoffs forcing those that are voting to pick the best of the bad choices.
This is the same thing that will typically happen in the city you're talking about, hence why most democracies are representative and not direct.
Even if people in your example couldn't agree on a particular alternative, the outcome still is a less attractive area, maybe some will move out and fewer people move in. So, any solution would be better than the status quo - and they all would probably agree on that.
The lack of a good error handling story to a lot of people puts go in a mental trash bin of sorts. Similar (but different) reasons eg Java goes to a mental trash bin. I think leaving this issue unhandled will only make go look worse and worse in comparisons as the programming language landscape evolves. It might take 10 or 20 years but it'll always be unique in having "trash bin worthy" error handling. (this can perhaps be argued - maybe exceptions are worse, but at least they're standard).