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munificentlast Tuesday at 6:43 PM0 repliesview on HN

> So, any solution would be better than the status quo - and they all would probably agree on that.

The point is that people do not agree that any solution is better than the status quo. In my analogy, if redeveloping that plot of land is quite expensive in tax dollars, people will prefer it be left alone completely so that money can be spent elsewhere than have it squandered on a "solution" that does nothing for them.

Likewise in Go, adding language features has a quite large cost in terms of cognitive load, decision load, implementation cost, etc. After many many surveys and discussions, it's clear that there is no consensus among the Go ecosystem that any error handling strategy is worth that cost.