Go has exceptions in the form of panics, they are discouraged and less sophisticated than other language exceptions but they certainly exist.

There is a valid argument about whether exceptions are the best way to signal errors or not. But most modern alternatives are some form of capturing errors directly in the type system, so that return types can carry error information (option or error types etc), and so that callers are forced to check for errors.

Oh I'm firmly in the monadic error return camp. Its just a misnomer that go doesn't have exceptions. It has both exceptions and by convention error returns. Its sort of the worst case scenario.

I will say that there is some good post compiler tooling around making sure that error handling isn't skipped but its definitely a weakness of the language.