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> Go is painful if you don't want to write high-quality heavily exercised production code.

That's the excuse that the golang authors give. The fact of the matter, golang is also extremely annoying when writing "high quality production code". golang errors are error-prone, and on more than one occasion we've had instances where errors are mistakingly ignored. This is much worse than exceptions where they have to be explicitly swallowed, otherwise they'd automatically bubble up.