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> and makes everyone happy

But that's never going to happen because there is a very vocal subpopulation (I think it is a minority, but don't know for sure, and it is hard to measure that kind of thing) that is opposed to any "syntactic sugar" and wants it to stay the way it is.

I they wanted error handling they would have thought for a bit then picked a good enough solution. "We only want 'X but perfect'" is the same as "we don't want X".

Example: https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

It's a settled matter at this point for the foreseeable future

https://go.dev/blog/error-syntax

tl;dr - proposals are no longer being considered