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One year after switching from Java to Go

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257 points pmig | 1 comments | 18 Feb 25 16:55 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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blindriver ◴[19 Feb 25 00:00 UTC] No.43096757[source]▶
I've been using Go for a while now. The biggest headache is error handling. I don't care what the "experts" say, having exception handling is so, so, so much cleaner in terms of error handling. Checking for err is simply bad, and trickling errors back up the call stack is one of the dumbest experiences in programming I've endured in multi-decades. If they are willing to add generics, they should add exception handling as well.
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1. rollulus ◴[19 Feb 25 05:40 UTC] No.43098949[source]▶
I guess I won’t be adding new information to what your “experts” said as well, but hey. I love Go’s error handling. Syntactic sugar like in Rust could’ve made things a bit nicer to they eye, but apart from that: being forced to think about each error path leads in my view to better code. Compared to a fat try/catch and fingers crossed that all goes well in it.