This exactly. I haven't written enough Go to be really annoyed by the more subtle things in the post, but it'd really be nice if they could come up with some sy

This exactly. I haven't written enough Go to be really annoyed by the more subtle things in the post, but it'd really be nice if they could come up with some syntax sugar for that kind of like Rust's ? helper. Maybe the Go ? is allowed within any function whose last return value is an error on any function call whose last return value is also an error. Call it with ? at the end and accept all but the last return value. At runtime, if the err is not nil, then it returns from the function, supplying the err value and nil for any other return values.