Error Handling — Learning to Love `if err != nil` (opens in new tab)

Error Handling — Learning to Love if err != nil In I covered goroutines and channels, and how Go's concurrency model sidesteps a lot of the ceremony I was used to from the JVM. This time I'm tackling the thing I complained about in part 1 of this series before I'd even really tried it: error handling. I called if err != nil repetitive back then. A few weeks and a lot of real code later, I owe Go a partial apology. No Exceptions, On Purpose Coming from Java, the absence of try/catch is the fir...