alt Hacker NewsI think we are saying the same thing: it is important metadata which is meant for human consumption (as opposed to the wrapped sentinel error) -- hence "log-friendly".
I think we are saying the same thing: it is important metadata which is meant for human consumption (as opposed to the wrapped sentinel error) -- hence "log-friendly".
> `return fmt.Errorf("annotation: %w", err)` is just a log-friendlier version of `return err`
This claim isn't true. The annotation-wrapping isn't just about making the returned error 'log-friendlier', it's annotating the error with context-specific information that's useful beyond "log" contexts. More concretely, that kind of annotation is critical if you expect to be able to introspect runtime errors in any way at all -- it's not a "log-friendlier" version of `return err`, it's an important and necessary change vs. `return err` which is in no way perfunctory or whatever.