Interestingly, the one time I introduced someone to Go without really "realizing" it (during a coding interview, got to pick the language I used), his first com

Interestingly, the one time I introduced someone to Go without really "realizing" it (during a coding interview, got to pick the language I used), his first comment was actually that he liked how explict the error return was. (strconv.Atoi, to be specific). That pretty much sums it all up to me: `if err != nil` seems like annoying boilerplate, but then when you see stuff that's not just doing `return err` inside that conditional, you realize that it can actually be a benefit.