As I was originally answering a question regarding whether it was normal to return errors or raise exceptions, and because I&#x27;ve read Dave Cheney and Rob Pike&#x27;s blog posts explicitly stating Go does not have exceptions I replied as such.<p>However, after doing some research I learned that in addition to Panic() there&#x27;s also Recover()[1], so I&#x27;ll concede that there is similarity between panic&#x2F;recover and throw&#x2F;catch. Prior to my learning about Recover() I was under the assumption that Panic was just used to print a message and close a program with a non-zero status.<p>1. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PanicAndRecover" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;golang&#x2F;go&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;PanicAndRecover</a>