if err != nil

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Mat and Carmen along with guest panelists Dave Cheney, Peter Bourgon, and Marcel van Lohuizen discuss errors in Go, including the new try proposal. Many questions get answered…What do we think about how errors work in Go? How is it different from other languages/approaches? What do/don’t we like? What don’t we like? How do we handle errors these days? What’s going on with the try proposal?

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Featuring:

• Dave Cheney – Website, GitHub, X
• Peter Bourgon – GitHub, X
• Marcel van Lohuizen – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Carmen Andoh – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• An Open Letter To The Go Team About Try plus a response from Russ Cox on Twitter.
• Functional programming and Go
• Next steps toward Go 2
• Errors are values

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!