As to why press a button that does nothing? For the same reason fidget spinners were all the rage a few years back: Bored people like to do something with their hands.
Perhaps if the comment had a question that was left unanswered, people wouldn't have become so bored?
Not really. The only suggested difference is that you "need to do something special to get a stack trace out" in Go, but that one is not even true. There is nothing special needed to get the stack trace. I suspect he is confusing exceptions with errors, the latter of which have no need for stack traces in the general case, so you would need to do something special to include the stack trace in an error for your special case.
There is more content in the thread, but not about exceptions. So, with that, here's your time to shine!
