alt Hacker NewsYou’re not missing anything. I’ve worked with many developers that are clueless about error handling; who treat it as a mostly optional side quest. It’s not surprising that folks sees the explicit error handling in Go as a grotesque interruption of the happy path.
That’s a pretty defensive take.
You don’t have to hate Go to agree that Rust’s `?` operator is much nicer when all you want to do is propagate the error.