I think ’strong census’ is not accurate - thus the discussions around improving error handling in Go2.
Many have commented here and elsewhere that the number one reason they don’t use Go is due to lack of exception handling. > On Feb 14, 2021, at 10:12 AM, Wojciech S. Czarnecki <[email protected]> wrote: > > Dnia 2021-02-13, o godz. 17:44:47 > Michael MacInnis <[email protected]> napisał(a): > >> I've been playing around with reducing error handling boilerplate > > You're not alone. Hundreds of us went into such thinking in the first weeks > of reading/using Go - yet before we noticed how much more productive we > are with Go's "boilerplate" than we were in languages where handling errors > (failures) was "a problem of others", including future-us as "others". > > Perceived consensus of the Go community is that "error handling boilerplate" > is a strong feature. I.e. in normal production software you MUST handle > failures > and you should do it as close as possible to the source of said failure. > > Go helps with that. Even team's proposal was finally retracted: > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 Discussion there is lengthy, but > worth > reading to sense why wider community considers "boilerplate" as asset. > > Error handling proposals umbrella: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/40432 > >> Michael. > > Hope this helps, > > -- > Wojciech S. Czarnecki > << ^oo^ >> OHIR-RIPE > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/20210214171250.4377c454%40xmint. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/B2B2509D-8FD5-4F3D-B469-080E3498D5F1%40ix.netcom.com.
