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peterashfordlast Wednesday at 2:03 AM0 repliesview on HN

I like Go. I use it at work and I find it pretty pragmatic.

But I can't stand the verbosity of the error handling. It drives me nuts. I also can't stand the level of rationalising that goes on when anyone dares to point out that Go's error handling is (obviously) verbose. The community has a pigheaded attitude towards criticism.

It also grinds my gears, because I really like that Go is in most other ways, simple and low on boilerplate. It's not unusual to see functions that are 50% error handling where the error handling actually DOES NOTHING. That's just insane.