[jimbokun]

I like Go a lot and can work with it's error handling paradigm, but I still often wonder if the same semantics could be accomplished with less verbosity in a way that makes the underlying algorithm more clear when reading the code.

[jahsome]

I've always felt the "verbosity" is a feature.

Verbosity is in the eye of the beholder; To me, it's the verbosity of error handling that makes the algorithm clear. Of course I recognize with others that opinion probably changes depending on whether the person reading a given bit of code views error handling as part of the algorithm.