Error Handling Using Other Programming Languages

New programmers to Go who have a background in other programming languages will initially find Go's methodology for dealing with errors a bit odd. Go does not handle errors in the same fashion as other languages, such as Java, Python, C#, and Ruby. Those languages perform exception handling.

The following code snippets are some examples of how other languages handle errors by performing exception handling:

//java
try {
  // code
}catch (exception e){
  // block of code to handle the error
}
//python
try:
  //code
except:
  //code
else:
  try:
  // code
  except:
  // code
finally:
  //code

Typically, exceptions, if not handled, will crash your application. In most cases, exception handling tends to be implicit checking versus Go's explicit checking for errors returned by its functions. In the exception handling paradigm, anything...