> Of course, there are also valid arguments in favor of change: Lack of better error handling support remains the top complaint in our user surveys. Looking at

> Of course, there are also valid arguments in favor of change: Lack of better error handling support remains the top complaint in our user surveys. Looking at that survey, only 13% mentioned error handling. So that means 87% didn't mention it. So in that sense, perhaps not too much weight should be given to that? I agree the verbosity fades into the background, but also feel something better can be done, somehow. As mentioned there's been a gazillion proposals, and some of them seem quite reasonable. This is something where the original Go design of "we only put in Go what Robert, Ken, and Rob can all agree on" would IMHO be better, because these type of discussions don't really get a whole lot better with hundreds of people from the interwebz involved. That said, I wasn't a fan of the try proposal and I'm happy it didn't make it in the language. And to be honest in my daily Go programming, it's not that big of a deal. So it's okay.