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Why Go Can't Try

https://niketpatel.com/essays/why-go-cant-try
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How utterly arrogant to insist that “every Go developer” wishes the language abandoned its principles in order to add some syntactic sugar to save a few lines of code. No, we don’t all feel a pang of envy at magic keywords that only work in certain function call configurations. Sheesh.
I really hate it when people try to justify Go’s design decisions. Try would be very useful. The real reason why is because the Go team refuses to take any lesson from any other programming language except for C. That’s why there are so many questionable decision. Also I was a little disappointed there was no mention of panics which are one such questionable decision. Also the author stopped trying to cover up their AI written tracks at the conclusion because you already read it so who cares.