How does Go handle errors without the use of exceptions?

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Functions return an error value as a result, which the caller must explicitly check — Go functions conventionally return error as the last return value. The caller checks if err != nil — making error handling explicit and visible in the code flow.

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Errors are caught with try/catch blocks that wrap the code that might fail

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The runtime silently logs errors to standard error and continues execution normally

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All errors immediately terminate the program with a non-zero exit code and stack trace

How does Go handle errors without the use of exceptions?

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