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by mseepgood 374 days ago
> sometimes a decision is better than nothing

Not in this case. The most popular Go proposal/issue of all times was 'leave "if err != nil" alone': https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20%20sort%3...
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thayne 374 days ago
If go had started out having different syntax for error handling, would these same people request that it change to what go currently does? Or is this just resistance to change, and wanting to keep what they are used to?

I suspect it is the latter.

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mseepgood 374 days ago
The second most popular issue was adding generics. So it's probably not a resistance to change.
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