Many occurrences of Hyrum's are "desire paths[1]" of APIs. For many people, the most obvious way to determine if the error was a MaxBytesError was to check the

Many occurrences of Hyrum's are "desire paths[1]" of APIs. For many people, the most obvious way to determine if the error was a MaxBytesError was to check the string. I'm not familiar with Go, but assuming it has RTTI, I'm guessing the intended path for people to take was to check the type of the error against MaxBytesError, and occurrences of this were people who either didn't know that, or found the error string to be immediately available in their tooling, but the type not immediately available. [edit] Per [2], this looks desire paths is even more an apt analogy than I thought; until 3 years ago, this code returned a generic Error type. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desire_path 2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202472 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202472