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0 pointsakvadrako5y ago0 comments

Panic works fine; they are basically just exceptions you can catch at a higher level. I almost exclusively use panic for my exceptions in go.

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marcus_holmes5y ago

I stopped, because it conflicts so badly with the Go conventions, and because I found myself handling more errors when I didn't use panic.

I think this is one of those things that new Gophers find hard to adjust to, and older ones realise the wisdom of (there's a few of these in the Go learning journey!).

I'm not impugning your expertise or implying that you're inexperienced. It's just something I've noticed.

akvadrakoOP5y ago

For me it was the other direction. I started using err returns because I knew it was idiomatic, but after doing that for months and seeing no benefit I decided it was just idiotic to continue.

When I want to handle an error case locally I still use them, but that's extremely rare.

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