alt Hacker NewsMost discussions of language features immediately fall into the politician's syllogism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politician%27s_syllogism
I appreciate the Go language's general sense of conservatism towards change. Even if you're not a fan of it, I think it's admirable that there is a project staking out a unique spot in the churn-vs-stability design space. There are plenty of other projects that churn as fast as they can, which also has its pros and cons, and it's great to be able to see the relative outcomes.
PS: it's kind of hilarious how the blog post is like "there are hundreds of proposals and miles of detailed analysis of these", vs the commenters here who are like "I thought about this for five minutes and I now have an idea that solve everything, let me tell you about it".
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Sometimes doing nothing is the right thing to do. (Quote from Until Dawn)
Go chose not to change the error handling - Nature remained in balance.
I'd happily come up with criticisms of any specific proposal and bikeshed it, but any one of these proposals would be preferable to the status quo.
I'd understand if they decided they needed more time to continue iterating on and analyzing proposals to find the right solution, but simply declaring that they'll just suspend the whole effort because they can't come to a consensus is rather infuriating.