> it infuriates me when third-party stuff in other languages throws exceptions and you end up needing to check everything anyway. exceptions are a curse. Anyth

> it infuriates me when third-party stuff in other languages throws exceptions and you end up needing to check everything anyway. exceptions are a curse. Anything can panic in Go. Go gives absolutely no guarantee something cannot panic. Errors as values are just a convention. So exceptions are a curse but Go has an inferior exception system, panics, but they are still exceptions. The solution is checked exceptions.