Golang's error handling is safer than C's, but it's more cumbersome than it needs to be. In high-level code, nearly every func you write can return an error, an

Golang's error handling is safer than C's, but it's more cumbersome than it needs to be. In high-level code, nearly every func you write can return an error, and 99% of the time you're just going to pass the error up. Webserver will catch all and send 4xx or 5xx, for example. Exceptions are a lot more convenient and encourage solid error handling. Rust chose a good in-between (the "?" unwrapping syntax). In mid or low level code, anything can still fail, but I suspect the performance impact of supporting exceptions or similar for basic operations (integer overflow, div by 0, etc) wouldn't be worthwhile vs just crashing the program or doing something else. Interestingly, Rust doesn't crash in this case: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch03-02-data-types.html