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		ansible on Sept 20, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Less is exponentially more (2012) With a parser for Go in the standard library, it would be easy enough to write a source scanner that looked for unhandled error returns.

acdha on Sept 20, 2013 [–]

This is true but that's a non-trivial task even before you get to the question of running it on all third-party code and getting the upstream to patch it. This would solve the problem only in the same way that static analysis tools mean C code no longer has buffer overflows or type conversion errors.

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