[madeofpalk]

It seems like an innocent mistake to me. I think there's a difference between actively ignoring something (like assigning an error to _), and ignoring something through omission. I think computers should try and prevent mistakes.

Go errors if you try to assign a number to a string, so it's clear there is some intention for the machine to catch when your brain makes a silly mistake.

[bayindirh]

I don't know how other developers think while coding, but if something can error out, I always handle the error first, or at least insert a panic() or equivalent immediately before continuing coding, regardless of the language I'm working on.

I can also think a couple of cases where I deliberately catch the error, but don't do anything on it explicitly, esp. if I'm talking with a buggy hardware. I'd still log the errors as INFOs or WARNs though. I have seen too many "task failed successfully" errors in my life.