Go's Error Handling Saga: The End of a Syntax War

After years of attempts to improve Go's verbose error handling, the Go team has decided to abandon efforts to change the language's syntax. Proposals like "check/handle", "try", and the "?" operator all failed to gain widespread consensus. The article details this history, explaining the decision based on the lack of consensus, high implementation costs, and the adequacy of existing approaches. The team argues that focusing on better error handling mechanisms and tools is more productive than pursuing syntactic sugar, emphasizing practicality and readability over code brevity.