Comment by osigurdson

There is a reason why Rust, Go and Zig don't have exceptions and it isn't because the language designers didn't understand them. While you can achieve the same thing using both approaches, errors as return values is generally simpler to reason about. Even in C# for example, exceptions are going to start taking a back seat with tagged unions which will be much better for expected failures.

I agree that Go's approach is a little cumbersome however. Suggest checking out Zig's approach which I personally think really nails it.