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Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by vaylian on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @09:11AM (#42245906)
> Because exceptions are not a goto anymore than a return is a goto

Not true at all

* goto goes to a specific hard-coded address

* return looks up the previous address from the stack and goes there

* exceptions are a complex mess that require branching logic to determine where to resume execution

Re:Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang by abtinf on Tuesday November 26, 2024 @06:16PM (#42251207)
Very well put.