[aikah]

So you admit Go error as value is verbose. Because they are. The best system ihmo is Java's. If a method throws then IT should be part of the method signature and dealing with the error (try/catch) should be mandatory. The irony is that Go has some form of (inferior) try/catch with panic/recover. So it has both but still pretends exceptions are bad.

[jerf]

The problem with checked exceptions is nothing more and nothing less than they didn't work. Yes, in theory, or at least some theories, checked exceptions ought to be awesome. But they aren't in practice. Go's error handling in practice works better than Java checked exceptions. Where fact and theory conflict, fact wins.

(I emphasize "checked" because there is a much more robust and interesting discussion about exceptions in general, and then of course a number of sidecar discussions about other error handling mechanisms like Either/Option, etc. I'm only making this claim about checked exceptions. Which is kinda shooting fish in a barrel; arguably C's error handling worked better than Java's checked exceptions and I think C's "error handling" isn't even worthy of the term.)