People downvote it, but it's true. 2/3 of your Go code is `if err` blocks. And the way you have to chain the error messages to make the stack make any kind of sense is just maddening.
We often have errors handled. In contrast to many Java codes just spitting unhandled exception stacktraces or crashing completely.
You must handle an exception in a language like Java. Yes, you can just print the stacktrace, but that is a choice. I don't HAVE to handle errors in Go until the program crashes as well. I never really understood that argument.