>This list's discussion here... Well sometimes I get the impression that Go programmers are more interested in never having the opportunity to make a conscious

>This list's discussion here... Well sometimes I get the impression that Go programmers are more interested in never having the opportunity to make a conscious mistake, in exchange for making lots of unconscious mistakes. A certain demographic can't stop waxing erotic about "being in the flow" and so love nothing more than churning out 1000 lines of mindless boilerplate, for this chunk endless if-nil checks are a feature not a bug because it's rote and adds to the line count.