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> Only if you consider the "language" to be only the language itself, i.e. syntax + semantics. When people refer to a "programming language", they almost always mean the whole package, i.e. the language itself, the community, package ecosystem, tooling, conventions, etc.

You're making a lot of assumptions based on absolutely no factual data, only your alleged experience. I can dismiss all your arguments easily as anecdotal.

As I said earlier Go suffers from having a bad exception system itself (panics/recover) and on the top of that go makes it a breeze to ignore errors:

    _ := YieldError()
You're basically claiming that teams are magically more disciplined just because they use Go. That's of course complete bullshit. An undisciplined team will ignore errors and exceptions the same way. There is nothing in Go that compels anybody to handle errors, just like there is nothing in Java that compels anybody to ignore exceptions.

Go errors are purely a convention, Go doesn't have anything in its syntax that forces error as value, it's just what the std library uses. So when talking about Go errors, they are purely talking about a convention, with absolutely no syntax to compel people to follow or enforce that convention. It requires thus even more discipline. Do you really believe your undisciplined programmers that ignored Java exceptions because it's verbose to deal with them are going to magically adopt an even more verbose paradigm? Of course not.



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