Curiously, parallel to this thread, there's another one on HN, which discusses (the lack of) exceptions in golang. And the reasoning starts out with "we don't n

Curiously, parallel to this thread, there's another one on HN, which discusses (the lack of) exceptions in golang. And the reasoning starts out with "we don't need exceptions", so we throw them out the door, but then, after a couple of intermediate steps, they come back through the window. Same door-window scenario is playing out here :)