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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by madeofpalk on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @05:12AM (#42244296)
> It forces you to think about all of the possibilities your code might generate.

Except it doesn't actually. You can totally just ignore it and pretend errors don't exist. Lack of sum types/Result, and pointers as poor mans optional, really hinder's Go's error handling story.

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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by monksy on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @03:33PM (#42249751)
I agree with you that the sum types are much better and it's intentional that they wanted null support. (Which was a frustrating pick considering the modern dev languages out there).

The coding style encourages the behavior you're talking about. We're back in the C days where you have a result and an error. It's not a good pattern.

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