Rust and Go's lack of stack traces are basically equivalent in that you need to call an additional function to add the stack context to the error result. For go you use fmt.Errorf, in Rust you use .context from anyhow (bad practice in many contexts IMO) or .inspect_err + log. It's rather unfortunate that neither has an easy way of capturing a line number + file easily and appending it to the context. Go could easily do it, I think. Oh well.

I agree that Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types to represent your conditions. The very multiple-return style error propagation makes it impractical to do.

IMO Go should add really basic tagged unions and rework the stdlib to use them, but such a change would probably necessitate a v2.

> I agree that Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types to represent your conditions. The very multiple-return style error propagation makes it impractical to do.

There was a proposal for a `try`, which I still think should have been adopted.

Under that proposal, `someComplicatedExpression(try(functionReturningError()))` would be converted to `foo, err := functionReturningError(); if err != nil{return zeroValue, zeroValue, err}; someComplicatedExpression(foo)`

> I agree that Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types to represent your conditions. The very multiple-return style error propagation makes it impractical to do.

There is always the Odin style 'or_return' operator, which is defined for a similar situation.

https://odin-lang.org/docs/overview/#or_return-operator

RE: Golang v2, they clearly said they will not do it and will double down on backwards compatibility with exceptions powered by env vars and/or CLI switches.

> Go should really have an analogue to Rust's `?`, but you can't really do that in a sane way without sum types

It could be just some simple (hey, that's what go wants to be, right?) macro thing, that just does the everyday `if err!=nil{return ..., err}` for you without having to juggle (and think about) vars.

    b := g(f()?)?
    // var b B
    // {
    //     var a A
    //     var err error
    //     a, err = f()
    //     if err != nil {
    //         return *new(A), *new(B), err
    //     }
    //     var b B
    //     b, err = g(a)
    //     if err != nil {
    //         return *new(A), *new(B), err
    //     }
    //     // no accidental reuse of err
    // }