If anyone hasn't seen it, an issue with the "proposal" tag was created earlier on the Go issue tracker titled "Proposal: leave "if err != nil" alone?" (here <https://golang.org/issues/32825>). This issue seems to have resonated with a lot of people, which may be an important data point when considering the try proposal <https://golang.org/issues/32437>, but I was surprised to see how poorly the discussion has gone. There are quite a few "me too" comments, a few image-only posts, some less than stellar personal conduct, and overall not a lot of nuanced discussion. I feel that perhaps these kinds of anti-proposals should be discouraged because they're inherently reactionary, which seems to get the discussion off on the wrong foot.
That said, this anti-proposal attracted a whole new group of Go users that I don't remember from the original try proposal discussion, which was mostly dominated by ten or twenty participants. The discussion was better, but the number of active users was much smaller. I wonder if there's a way to better engage a larger portion of the Go user base while still encouraging healthy, technical discussion. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAA%3DXfu3iym9EM_SKtFvyHNgusVF2yL3p1O4dgCs7_VPUnRzGJA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
