Some guesses: - People really like Result structures - People who wrote the API believe in the "operational issues and business issues should not be comingled

Some guesses: - People really like Result structures - People who wrote the API believe in the "operational issues and business issues should not be comingled" philosophy (so this function might raise on a connection error, but it _won't_ raise when there's simply an error like a name conflict) - People who wrote the example write Too Much(TM) Go