Writing it was never the problem if you're using proper tools, e.g. an actual IDE (IDEA does fine), or at least a snippet manager for your text editor. Insertin

Writing it was never the problem if you're using proper tools, e.g. an actual IDE (IDEA does fine), or at least a snippet manager for your text editor. Inserting a wrapping error handling snippet requires two key presses. It's reviewing mountains of that crap that's the problem, especially if there are non-trivial cases hidden in there, like returning the error when `err == nil` (mentioned by others in this thread).