[pjmlp]

While it won't win the hearts of Gophers, I would use a utility function that panics if error, at least on throw away code.

[yakubin]

There are some instances of it in the stdlib, e.g. <https://pkg.go.dev/html/template@go1.18.4#Must>

I'd guess with generics we can expect a generic "Must" to replace them.