The end of the article has my favorite solution.

This is also how I'd solve it in Rust, except the defer would be implicit.

    func doSomething() error {
        f, err := os.Create("foo")
        if err != nil { return err }
        defer func(){ _ = f.Close() }()

        if _, err := f.Write([]byte("bar"); err != nil { return err }

        return f.Close()
    }