And like many languages that do, it's an extreme code smell to use it, whereas most(if not all?) languages that have exceptions recommend to use them. Though technically, Go does have exceptions (under the name "panic"), just not a very easy to use "try/catch" block (the "try/catch" stuff is function level, so you have to do anonymous functions to "emulate" other language's try/catch). Also, Go's goto has restrictions.