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by NateDad 2760 days ago
Gah, my eyes! Why is the font so huge? And why doesn't zoom change it? I have to like step 5' back from my screen to read it....

Otherwise...

I have been writing Go for about 6 years... errors make so much sense to me. Why have some external codepath for "file not found"? Why is that different than "name == bob"? They're just data that is in one state or another. You check for them the same way, with an if statement. There's nothing magical.
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erik_seaberg 2760 days ago
If a function can't succeed there's no reason to continue executing it. Stopping and reporting the error to your caller is the common case and should not be discouraged by adding friction and obscuring the useful parts.
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weberc2 2760 days ago
And yet no one is deterred from proper error handling in Go. On the other hand, I see people fail to properly handle errors all the time in our Python/JS shop.

EDIT: This isn't some language partisanship; it's my observations from years of experience with the aforementioned languages (I work in a Python/JS shop). I'm guessing there are no formal data about this, so I'd be curious to hear other anecdotes whether they agree or conflict with mine.

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smbullet 2760 days ago
Yeah, I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. We also use Python at work and reviewing code is an absolute nightmare because you end up needing to dive deep into each function call to see if there are any exceptions being ignored. We're trying to enforce adding all possible exceptions in the docstrings but it's difficult because third party libraries (and even the standard library!) sometimes don't document them. Typically we have a catch-all Exception in our main loop and recover from there in case there's something we missed in dev and staging. I'd much prefer being able to know which functions have the ability to fail and why.
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jstimpfle 2760 days ago
Thinking about control flow and organizing for clean structure is crucial for developping code bases of non-trivial size, and that should not be discouraged by encouraging superficial efficiencies.
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dmix 2760 days ago
> And why doesn't zoom change it?

It's using `vw` font measurements (instead of `px`/`rem`).

https://css-tricks.com/viewport-sized-typography/

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