Or worse. Some library developer decided that "panic()" was the way to go rather than: return nil, err I'm fine with error values or Pythonesque exception

Or worse. Some library developer decided that "panic()" was the way to go rather than: return nil, err I'm fine with error values or Pythonesque exceptions, just not both combined. So much of my code is typically: result, err := someFunc() if err != nil { return nil, err } Most error conditions are basically unrecoverable anyway.