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> sometimes a decision is better than nothing Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://gith
by mseepgood 1y ago
> sometimes a decision is better than nothing
Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3Areactions-%2B1-desc https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3...
- thayne 1y agoIf go had started out having different syntax for error handling, would these same people request that it change to what go currently does? Or is this just resistance to change, and wanting to keep what they are used to? I suspect it is the latter.
- mseepgood 1y agoThe second most popular issue was adding generics. So it's probably not a resistance to change.