How do you feel about

    v, err := foo.Open()
    // …
    defer func() {
        if closeErr := v.Close(); closeErr != nil {
            err = fmt.Errorf("while closing %w: %v", err, closeErr)
        }
    }() 
  
    // …

When you’re writing something trivial/pure, Go’s error handling is fine, if maybe a tad bit verbose, but it quickly becomes nightmarish when you start to do nontrivial things that are typical for systems programming.

FWIW I love Go, it’s my daily driver for most things. I still think it can get messy far too quickly