[thirsteh]

In fact, Either/Maybe can function like safer versions of both paradigms: Functors allow you to build a program of many functions that will terminate with 'Nothing' or 'Either l' as long as any one of them experiences an error, without thinking about errors, and it still lets you explicitly handle any errors if you want to, this time on the sum type Maybe or Either, meaning that you usually handle both the error and non-error case, or receive a compiler warning.

I agree that, probably universally, the people who fervently argue for either exceptions or explicit Go-style error handling don't know about Maybe/Either/Result. Then again, all this is pretty much impossible to replicate in Go.