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by hossbeast 3163 days ago
They also write a descriptive message (and nothing else) on stderr as a convention.
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Animats 3162 days ago
Which is usually useless to a GUI or a script.
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hossbeast 3160 days ago
Other than for informing the user what went wrong (which is specifically one of the things you called out as a problem)
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