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Comment by azhenley | Hacker News Reader

Wow, I wouldn't have expected that. Do you have a reference for the 30%? I'd like to see what is going on to cause that big of a difference.

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Every other 5 lines being the equiv of:

    if err != nil {
        ... error handling ...
    }

Python just uses exceptions, and they bubble up. No need for this excessively verbose error checking.

I'm not sure why it is downvoted. This is true. I write both Golang and Python as part of my day job. I love both languages, but this is definitely the truth.

Go is more verbose. It also gives you the wonder of the compiler telling you about doing stupid things. That doesn't make it a worse language.

Does go not have exception handling?

go has something in the same general area of error handling called panic/recover. It's not exceptions in the normal sense, and devs expect nothing should panic across api boundaries.

Go does not have exception handling at all. It is a proposal they're seriously considering for go2:

https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf...

See the bits about error handling and error values.

What was the reason the go designers didn't have exception handling?

Read Rob Pike's post on why: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/06/less-is-exponenti...

The go2 proposal shows that in this respect, he was woefully wrong.

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