Uh, no, it's just bad code. Don't get me wrong, error handling is verbose and annoying, but not even displaying actual error is just horrible coding practice.

Uh, no, it's just bad code. Don't get me wrong, error handling is verbose and annoying, but not even displaying actual error is just horrible coding practice. should be at the very least err = json.Unmarshal(weatherBody, &WeatherRes) if err != nil { fmt.Printf("error decoding weather json: %s\n",err) return } or just be function that returns that error or the weather err = json.Unmarshal(weatherBody, &WeatherRes) if err != nil { return fmt.Errorf("error decoding weather json: %s\n",err) }