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by thunky 86 days ago
I don't think people mind reading Go as much as they mind writing it.
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Nah all the `if err != nil` is just so much noise they obscures the real logic. And for the longest time it didn’t have generics to write map/filter/reduce on slices, forcing people to use loops where the intention is less clear.
Ideally, the errors shouldn't be returned as-is, but wrapped with context instead. If that context doesn't matter for you, you can have your editor wrap the if instead, which helps a lot.