On: The Use of assert() in SQLite

[awb]

You could, but then when you get an error, you'll see the file and line number of the assert function rather than the code that actually produced the error.

[bbatha → awb]

The runtime package allows you to grab the current trace, you can just pop the last frame off and print that.

[awb → bbatha]

True. The only other challenge is that in production software you rarely want to call panic()

[IanS5 → awb]

As another comment mentioned you can just use build tags to make assert a no-op in release builds