alt Hacker NewsI have a similar level of experience with Go, and I would go so far as to say it is in fact one of the best features of the language.
I wouldn’t be surprised that when the pro-exception-handling crowd eventually wins, it will lead to hard forks and severe fragmentation of the entire ecosystem.
To be honest, I really don't believe that will happen in the future. All of the proposals pretty much just add syntactical sugar, and even those have failed to gain consensus.