Introducing Crumbs: A Rich Error Handling Library for Go
The Love-Hate Relationship with Go’s Errors I love Go. Its simplicity, performance, and concurrency model are fantastic. But if I’m being honest, I’ve always had a bit of a love-hate relationship with its error handling. The if err != nil pattern is beautifully explicit, but the errors themselves can feel… well, a bit plain. When an application is simple, a single error string is often enough. But as my projects grew, especially in distributed systems, I found myself needing more....