I know they're just a convention, but that was a mistake. It should have had more first-class language support so that they have stacktraces at least.
I'm seriously beginning to think that even with the limitations, panic is a better error handling mechanism for all exceptional error cases. At least it has stacktraces and doesn't clutter the code with error boilerplate. I don't think I'd be able to convince anyone of that on a real project though, I'd have to try it on a personal project.
