I've never found `if err != nil {` to be a problem; on the contrary, it draws my eye right to the error-handling logic in any function. OTOH, exceptions tend to

I've never found `if err != nil {` to be a problem; on the contrary, it draws my eye right to the error-handling logic in any function. OTOH, exceptions tend to obscure this (in the best case you have checked exceptions and you are only unsure about which function is raising the exception; at worst you have something like Python where you have no idea what exceptions could be thrown or if they're handled properly), and Rust's `try!` tends to blend in too well with its surroundings (this is a special case of Rust's density making it hard to read). YMMV.