> I'm just saying stack traces with exceptions provide a lot of useful debugging info.
The Go team actually did a study on exactly that; including stack traces with errors. Like you, they initially thought it would be useful (hence the study), but in the end, when the data was in, they discovered nobody ever actually used them. Meaningful errors proved to be far more useful.
Science demands replication, so if your study disagrees, let's see it. But in the absence of that, the Go study is the best we've got and it completely contradicts what you are telling us. Making random claims up on the spot based on arbitrary feelings isn't indicative of anything.
That said, I think we can all agree there is a limited place for that type of thing (although in that place you shouldn't use Go at all — there are many other languages much better suited to that type of problem space), but in that place if you had to use Go for some strange reason you'd use panic and recover which already includes the stack trace for you. The functionality is already there exactly as you desire when you do need to bend Go beyond what it is intended for.
The Go team actually did a study on exactly that; including stack traces with errors. Like you, they initially thought it would be useful (hence the study), but in the end, when the data was in, they discovered nobody ever actually used them. Meaningful errors proved to be far more useful.
Science demands replication, so if your study disagrees, let's see it. But in the absence of that, the Go study is the best we've got and it completely contradicts what you are telling us. Making random claims up on the spot based on arbitrary feelings isn't indicative of anything.
That said, I think we can all agree there is a limited place for that type of thing (although in that place you shouldn't use Go at all — there are many other languages much better suited to that type of problem space), but in that place if you had to use Go for some strange reason you'd use panic and recover which already includes the stack trace for you. The functionality is already there exactly as you desire when you do need to bend Go beyond what it is intended for.