I like not having exceptions (that are widely used). It's easier to reason about your code. It's, let's just say, "stressful", to know that any line of code you

I like not having exceptions (that are widely used). It's easier to reason about your code. It's, let's just say, "stressful", to know that any line of code you write could potentially blow up and start re-winding the whole stack. Especially in a language like Java that doesn't have stack objects with destructors. You have to indent everything 30 lines in, with finally blocks all over the place. It turns into a mess. Go has a bunch of "if err != nil"s, but for some reason those are less objectionable to me. I feel in control with those. And the code runs down the page, not to the right.