Panics are definitely one of the bigger design mistake of go. They should have either removed panics entirely and made error as return values the only way to do

Panics are definitely one of the bigger design mistake of go. They should have either removed panics entirely and made error as return values the only way to do signal errors or they should have made defer+recover more mainstream like exceptions. Current state of affairs is that third party libraries panic where they shouldn’t, programs don’t defer where they should, recovers cause deadlock due to non deferred mutex releases, that assumed panics are panics and not exceptions. On top of that we have to live with the verbose error handling that still isn’t water tight.