Comment by figassis

This, Go came and I just have no desire to go back to those languages spawned from hell that force fed me horrible patterns and called it best practices.

Go is amazing in that it lets you tell the machine what you want, simply and you can easily verify that that is indeed what the machine should be doing.

Regarding defer, idk about other, but I never assumed it was a gotcha, you read the go docs once and all is just clear and you don’t make most mistakes that others claim are footguns.