There have been tons of discussions and proposals regarding error handling boilerplate [0][1], and the general consensus is that go developers like the explicit

There have been tons of discussions and proposals regarding error handling boilerplate [0][1], and the general consensus is that go developers like the explicitness of `if err != nil` and just want to leave it be [2] [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32804 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32804 [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32825 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32825