> Surely this would all go away if Go had an exception handling mechanism like most mainstream languages do? Or monads, but that might be a step too far for th

> Surely this would all go away if Go had an exception handling mechanism like most mainstream languages do? Or monads, but that might be a step too far for the Go world considering the push-back against generics. When you have declarative error handling (a good thing imho) then monads really are the bees knees.