Well, it's non-obvious what we're comparing it to, so I assumed the most oft compared exceptions.

In this case, when opening a file, you can go ahead and use the value and "ignore" the error. Go ahead a run either of the above examples. Notice tptacek explicitly ignores the error.

This argument comes up a lot in lieu of or during talk of Generics, so it'd be best for me to defer to those discussions. Unless you or the OP have examples of hating `err` handling not yet described here, opening / reading a file in Go doesn't strike me as a place to take jabs at how errors are handled in Go.