Circular wisdom – A personal note

• Once upon a time, error handling in code was simple: just good old if-else checks. No drama, no flair.

• Then came try-catch, promoted as a cleaner, more elegant way to handle errors. And it quickly became the new standard in many languages.

• Fast forward a few decades, and the creators of Go took a step back and basically said, "Actually... that old if-else style is kinda better. More explicit. Easier to follow."

  So they left try-catch out entirely.

• However, for critical failures Go still sticks to "try-catch"-like mechanism, just under a different name: "panic and recover".

So... what the heck is going on? 😄

These "great" minds love to introduces their personal brand of wisdom and masses love to follow them like crazy.

(Still trying to make sense of all this circular wisdom.)