> but lots of languages don't enforce error handling around printing to stdout They do, they throw exceptions. > In the first and the last case, it seems obvi

> but lots of languages don't enforce error handling around printing to stdout They do, they throw exceptions. > In the first and the last case, it seems obvious to me where the error is The last case is especially insidious. I've seen it in production several times now. Very easy to miss. Particularly when refactoring/copy pasting code (which you have to do a lot of in golang).