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I would be all over Go with a better type system or exceptions.

If Go ever adds exceptions[1] as an error handling mechanism, I'm out. Value errors are far superior to exceptions, even in their current state in Go.

[1]: assuming panics are not an error handling mechanism but a recovery mechanism

Madness.

Panics can be values and errors don't have to be values in go?

I think you are missing up concepts here

I’m not talking about the underlying model, I’m talking about the control flow. What I mean is errors are explicit values belonging to the signature of the functions.

Checked Exceptions are nothing but errors as values with some syntactic sugar for the most common use case (bubbling up the error).

Gos version of value errors is just micrometers ahead of C style error codes. In both cases you get told "there could be an error", the error is a value of one single type (error/int), and you have to manually find out which different errors this value could represent.

If you want to know what you're missing, check out Rusts error handling.

I love Rust error handling and wish it would have been the default in Go (too late to shoehorn it), but it has nothing to do with exceptions.

C#, OCaml, Java, Scala, Kotlin all fulfill these requirements, while targeting the same niche.

Yes there are indeed lots of languages in existence.

Go has insanely good tooling and very fast single binary compiling.

While all these languages (afaik) can reach similar levels of functionality (GraalVM e.g.), it's more work. As much as I hate the language Go, I can't deny how braindead simple it is to just make a tool with it. I don't need to choose a build tool, or a runtime version, there's a library for everything and most developers with more than a room temp IQ can immediately start working on it.

The only other language that currently comes close is Rust. If only they had stuck to using a GC, I'd be in heaven.

Is this that different from languages like Dotnet? I think one line in your config can make it Aot compiled.

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