[BrainVirus]

>Concise Go code has a high signal-to-noise ratio.

A few lines later:

  // Good:
  if err := doSomething(); err != nil {
      // ...
  }

"Tell me, how many lights you see?"

[B-Con]

I think that it is fair to say Go considers error handling to be signal, not noise.

This position has obviously prompted a philosophical war and not everyone agrees, but the two statements are consistent under Go's philosophy.

[Ferret7446]

What's wrong with this? The code is doing... exactly what it says. Call doSomething and if it returns an error do something else. What part of that is noise?

[michaelcampbell]

As does most code. That doesn't mean it has a high signal:noise ratio.

[robertlagrant]

Some of these threads seem like that party game where people write a story together, but each player can only read the previous sentence of the story when writing the next one.