Or `-Werror` that makes // given func Onoz() error { return errors.New("kaboom") } // when Onoz() // does not compile due to unhandled erro

Or `-Werror` that makes // given func Onoz() error { return errors.New("kaboom") } // when Onoz() // does not compile due to unhandled error Golang has an existing syntax for purposefully eating errors via _ = Onoz() but I've caught innumerable bugs in codebases where the author didn't realize (or care?) that funcs returned error and just swallowed it For a language where an _unused import_ is a compilation error, surely either making error swallowing also a compile error, or (as opt-in behavior) using -Werror as with gcc to say, "no, seriously: no error swallowing permitted" It might require some silliness given the "vendor deps" pattern, but then again, if one of your deps is also careless, maybe that's _exactly_ the circumstances under which you'd want to call timeout