I almost never use that in my code, I almost always use res, err := ... if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) } for that

I almost never use that in my code, I almost always use res, err := ... if err != nil { return nil, fmt.Errorf("...: %w", err) } for that exact reason. This doesn't scan any worse than any other text-based code. (Page in the people selling visual programming here.)