It would be still nice do "return if error" in one line say via some "macro" (I'd kill for Rust-like macros in go...) err!(err,"Connection to %s failed",se

It would be still nice do "return if error" in one line say via some "macro" (I'd kill for Rust-like macros in go...) err!(err,"Connection to %s failed",serverAddr") or even return ErrConnFailed{address,err} if err != nil instead of if err != nil { return "",nil,Struct{},fmt.Errorf("Connection to %s failed: %s",serverAddr,err) } You can't even shorten it to one line because go fmt will "helpfully" expand it back to 3 lines... I do think writing context (whether by error type or "just" text) with each error is the way to go vs "just throw it up the stack and hope for best" but Go syntax fails it in that quest.