[marcus_holmes]

dude, scrolling the page is literally a finger on the mouse wheel. I don't think "I need to see my entire program in one 60-line screen" is a good dynamic for coding.

Explicitly handling errors is one of those things that you get used to, for really, really, good reasons, when learning Go.

> Any worthwhile tool is going to be used for years, and you’re only going to be newbie for a small fraction of the time. It’s better to invest time learning a good notation than to force all the expensive experts to slog through a bad notation forever.

No, because assuming the next developer knows as much as you is probably wrong. Because reading code you wrote 6 months ago is like reading an alien script. And because Go (for very, very good reasons) optimises readability over terseness.