Saying that a particular language feature is bad in a vacuum is a ridiculous endeavor because you aren't accounting for trade offs in the language as a whole. T

Saying that a particular language feature is bad in a vacuum is a ridiculous endeavor because you aren't accounting for trade offs in the language as a whole. The most obvious way to "fix" Go error handling is to add some form of sum types to the language. But this comes with its own set of trade offs that have been discussed at great length on golang-nuts.