Go basically does have exceptions, though they call it something else, it is slightly less powerful than you would normally expect, and the idiomatic usage is v

Go basically does have exceptions, though they call it something else, it is slightly less powerful than you would normally expect, and the idiomatic usage is very different. Honestly I that Go's idiomatic usage of panic/recover is a good idea even in other languages. Exceptions passing package boundaries is typically a pain in the ass in practice, it makes for ugly code. (My "day job" is typically Java these days, some Scala. I am not speaking from inexperience like many Go detractors like to assume. There seems to be a perverse notion that anyone who dislikes exceptions must not understand them. Silly.)