&gt;The language&#x27;s design and conventions encourage you to explicitly check for errors where they occur (as distinct from the convention in other languages of throwing exceptions and sometimes catching them)<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.golang.org&#x2F;error-handling-and-go" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.golang.org&#x2F;error-handling-and-go</a>