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If you read more carefully, you would see he would prefer that the language would not allow him to ignore errors.

You say "The idiomatic answer to this is that you should check error status", yes, that's a Go design pattern, but nothing enforces that. In other languages, thanks to Option/Result types, this is enforced, hence his opinion.

Such kind of safety and security concerns should not be enforced by conventions.