The Bilingual Developer: Python and Go, The Error Handling Paradigm

In the previous article, we explored how functions allow us to package logic into reusable blocks. However, a crucial question remains: what happens when that logic goes wrong? Building applications is not just about writing code for the "happy path," the scenario where everything works perfectly. In reality, our programs interact with the messy, unpredictable outside world. Files we try to open might be missing.