I've tried Go in the past, and the least I could say is that I was not enthusiastic about it. Chief among my griefs was how the language handled errors, or more precisely, what mechanism it provided developers with to manage them. In this post, I'd like to describe how a couple of popular languages cope with errors.
A Time Before Our Time
I could probably go back a long time, but I needed to choose a baseline at some point. In this post, the baseline is C.