> I really don't miss having invisible control flow for expected conditions blowing up my programs with long stack traces.

As opposed to panics? Checked exceptions don't blow up in your face, you have to handle them. Nil errors and type errors might yet these also happen to Go. I see no difference with Java here. Go isn't better when it comes to error handling, in fact Go is extremely tedious when it comes to error handling.

> (And FWIW, Go does have exceptions, it just calls them panics, and has a culture not using them for "known knowns" error conditions.)

So Go has both(unchecked exceptions and errors as "value"), how does it make things better? it doesn't. If it did, the blog wouldn't be talking about people "handling errors the wrong way".