The Go Blog [ On | No ] syntactic support for error handling Robert Griesemer 3 June 2025 One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns the verbosity of error handling. We are all intimately (some may say painfully) familiar with this code pattern: x, err := call() if err != nil { // handle err } The test if err != nil can be so pervasive that it drowns out the rest of the cod
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