I'm in the camp that actually prefers -- strongly prefers -- Go's style of error handling over exceptions. It's not a perfect language of course, but when you s

I'm in the camp that actually prefers -- strongly prefers -- Go's style of error handling over exceptions. It's not a perfect language of course, but when you say it's successful only because Google marketed it, I think you're off by quite a lot. Go is popular in part because of the things you hate that other people like. Also, Google hasn't really done any real "marketing" of Go that I can see. They released it with what amounted to enough fanfare to say "Hey, here's a thing. We think it's pretty cool. Here you go." And the point of Go is that it isn't trying to be "fundamental steps ahead". If anything, Go is an opinionated statement that programming was better in 1992 than it is today, so let's just fix the annoying shit from 1992 and pretend the word "enterprise" had continued to just mean the ship from Star Trek.