Go team plans around error handling support

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The Go team has officially decided to stop pursuing syntactic language changes for error handling after years of failed proposals including check/handle, try builtin, and the ? operator. Despite error handling verbosity being the top complaint in user surveys, none of the proposed solutions gained sufficient community consensus. The team will focus on library-based solutions and tooling improvements instead, closing future syntax-focused error handling proposals without investigation.

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<p>SPOILER ALERT: I was expecting that they had a Proposal at the end.</p>


<p>Actually, I quite like this <code>err := nil</code>. I may end up sharing the same dissatisfaction as them if I continue writing in this language for the next decade or so, but at least for now, I have no particular complaints. I appreciate that the Go team has not made major changes to the code.
I would rather not have books I purchased a decade ago become obsolete.</p>
