[flanked-evergl]

> In Go the programmer is forced to make a decision on what to do with the error.

Actually go runs perfectly fine if you just do nothing with the error, and then you are flying past errors like it is nobody's business. Of course you can you static analysis to tell you if you forgot to handle an error, and most people do, but that is not really a language feature.

In Java a programmer is also forced to make a decision to add explicit exception handling or not. But if they choose to not add it, the program won't just pretend like all is fine and dandy, it will stop the execution of the current function and pass the exception up the stack.