Error Handling in Go: Patterns That Actually Work at Scale
When I started writing Go after years of Java, the error handling felt tedious. Every function returns an error. Every callsite checks if err != nil. There’s no try/catch, no exception hierarchy, no automatic stack traces. The verbosity was jarring. A year into building services at the fintech startup, I’d changed my view. The verbosity is real and the boilerplate is real, but the explicitness surfaces things that exception-based languages hide. The question is how to handle errors well rather than just correctly. ...