By skyforbes 
I still remember the first time I wrote Go in anger.
A boring API service. A Friday night deadline. My IDE window looked like a police report — if err != nil { return err } repeated so many times I thought I was hallucinating.
By the third function, I felt like I wasn’t coding. I was filling out TPS reports in triplicate.
And then it hit me: this isn’t “simplicity.” It’s Stockholm Syndrome dressed up as design philosophy.
When “Practical” Becomes Painful
Go fans love to remind you that error handling is explicit. “Look,” they say, “no exceptions! No hidden stack traces! You always know what went wrong!”
Sure. In theory.
In practice? You get a wall of repetitive boilerplate that teaches your brain to ignore error checks altogether. Your eyes glaze over. You start copy-pasting if err != nil { return err } like an obedient intern who stopped asking questions.
This isn’t explicit. This is camouflage. Errors hide in plain sight because they all look the same.
The cruel part? The very thing that was supposed to make bugs obvious makes them invisible.