I don't know that there's whining about "having to handle errors" in principle, it's pretty clearly a complaint with the syntax and semantics of doing so Some

I don't know that there's whining about "having to handle errors" in principle, it's pretty clearly a complaint with the syntax and semantics of doing so Some languages even make omitting error handling impossible! (e.g. Result sum types). None have anywhere near the amount of "whining" Go seems to attract