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by erik_seaberg 2604 days ago
The Go version is 78% useless noise trying to hide

  f(computeFirst(), computeSecond())
which is what a maintainer needs to focus on. We know everything can fail, we don't need to be incessantly reminded of that.

If completely inexperienced people can read idiomatic code, that means the idioms don't capture anything tricky that had to be learned the hard way. There's no payoff for getting better with the language.