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What's your argument? The point the article is making is that Go says it's simple, but isn't, while Rust doesn't say that it's simple, and uses its complexity to solve the complex problem.

Bubbling up means returning the error to the caller, and is general error handling jargon.

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And the reason Go keeps a toe-hold in the ecosystem is that file-handling is simple for most people, most of the time.

Rust is expressing the full complexity of a twisty maze of corner-cases built up from decades of filesystem features being slapped on with no care for each others' existence. Go just says "Sure, but you won't need most of that most of the time; here's a subset that usually works." So it solves most people's problem most of the time with far less words (with the trade-off that if you get burned, you get burned).

Just because Go doesn't have a consistent API for file stuff, does not make it 'not simple' it makes it inconsistent. It is still simpler, and easier for me to understand ALL of the Go code on screen, than it was for me to understand just that rust function signature, and all the stuff in the paragraph I posted.

I hear you. People keep saying Spanish is an easier language than English, but yesterday I pulled up an article written in Spanish and I couldn't even read the first word.

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