And so Go is one step closer to being a real programming language in many people's eyes.
Meanwhile, as a non Java programmer, I've never seen a Scala app. I know about R, but nothing on my PC is written in it.
Agreed that PHP is massive in comparison to all of them.
One widely known Scala application is Kafka. Some parts of it are in Java, but actual core is still mainly Scala afaik.
You could say the same thing about excel macros. They are both tools for wrangling data, tools that will typically not be distributed to end users.
Explicit error handling can be tedious, but I’m never confused about what some code will do.
Compared to Java where an exception may bubble up 10 layers to a catchall try catch statement, I actually know where the error is coming from.
Would be nice to have this abstracted away with tooling though. I would imagine go generate could be used to great effect in this arena.
I prefer returning errors as a part of the function result myself, as you would in any decent language encouraging functional programming principles.
If anything, it shows that including a feature in a language (exceptions) will not lead to people misusing it if that misuse is not encouraged.