Java, C#, Python, Lisp, and Erlang would all criticize Go for an unqualified new exception system panic/recover is not an exception system in the sense th

Java, C#, Python, Lisp, and Erlang would all criticize Go for an unqualified new exception system panic/recover is not an exception system in the sense that you mean. Nobody is writing large applications and using panic/recover for error handling. (At least, I hope not!) The idiomatic way of handling errors in Go is returning them explicitly, and checking for them at the call site. func canFail() (int, error) { ... } value, err := canFail() if err != nil { // handle }