A lot of very common operations can panic: division, dereferencing pointer or interface, indexing/slicing an array/slice/string, asserting the type of an interface, and converting a slice to pointer to array. It’s possible to check, but I’ve never seen a tool that verifies you never use any of these without checking.

And there are some operations where you cannot check in advance whether a panic will happen: comparing interfaces (underlying values might not be fully comparable), indexing a map (could blow up during any concurrent write), and closing or sending to a closed channel.

You can recover from a panic though, so if you are implementing something that may panic you should have some sensible defer/recover in there if you can't afford to have your process crash.

Division by zero, dereferencing a nil pointer, invoking methods on a nil interface, invalid indexing of an array, unchecked type assertions -- these are not common operations! These are always easily detectable programmer errors.