Yeah, there are plenty of ways to abuse and misuse those as well. On the positive side, it's possible to make one piece of error handling for e.g. opening a fil

Yeah, there are plenty of ways to abuse and misuse those as well. On the positive side, it's possible to make one piece of error handling for e.g. opening a file and writing to it. Just handle IOException. In Go, I have to do manual error handling for each step that may go wrong, ie. the file does not exist, program doesn't have permission to write to etc. In many cases I just want to handle the simple case of "unable to write to file for some reason". My thoughts on Go error handling has made me conclude that there is probably no really good way to do it. Every approach will come with a load of downsides.