alt Hacker News> sometimes a decision is better than nothing
Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3...
> sometimes a decision is better than nothing
Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3...
If go had started out having different syntax for error handling, would these same people request that it change to what go currently does? Or is this just resistance to change, and wanting to keep what they are used to?
I suspect it is the latter.