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Re:Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try” by erik_seaberg on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:08AM (#20456360)
Experts' code should be clearer and more concise than novices' code. If that's not true, there's no payoff for getting more proficient with the language, and it's not doing enough to help you.
Re:Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try” by oftenwrong on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @06:50AM (#20458120)
golang is not primarily designed for experts

"The key point here is our programmers are Googlers, they’re not researchers. They’re typically, fairly young, fresh out of school, probably learned Java, maybe learned C or C++, probably learned Python. They’re not capable of understanding a brilliant language but we want to use them to build good software. So, the language that we give them has to be easy for them to understand and easy to adopt." – Rob Pike

Re:Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try” by pjmlp on Thursday July 18, 2019 @05:07AM (#20468050)
Ironic in a company that prouds itself of PhD hiring games.
Re:Declined Proposal: A built-in Go error check function, “try” by nkozyra on Wednesday July 17, 2019 @12:15AM (#20456401)
This is about readability. There are many other attributes of code (idiomatic? design? efficiency?) that differentiate. But I should be able to grok anyone's code within reason.