> Go asserts that "error handling" and "main flow" (a.k.a. "happy path") code paths are equivalent,
Yes...
> and that you can't ignore the bad stuff as you program against the good stuff.
No? I don't claim that -- at least in the sense that the compiler permits you to ignore errors if you want to. But that's not some death blow against the language. The compiler is one of many mechanisms that can be used to assert code quality.
