[jcelerier]

> The C++ answer to that is, well, this:

the linked link has a ton of things that are "quality-of-life" things. For instance comparing two Result values efficiently (you don't want to compare two Result<T> bitwise, and you don't want the "is_valid" flag to be first in the structure layout to fallback on the automatic default of lexical order as that would sometimes waste a few bytes, but you want the "is_valid" flag to be the first thing being compared for instance. Do you know of a language that would do that automatically ?).

It also supports back to C++11 and GCC4.9 with various fixes for some specific compiler versions's bugs, supports being used with -fno-exceptions (so a separate language than ISO C++) - sure, today's languages can do better in terms of prettiness, but so would a pure-C++20 solution that only needs to work with a single implementation.

If you are ready to forfeit some amount of performance, for instance because you don't care that the value of your Result will be copied instead of moved when used in a temporary chain (e.g. `int x = operation_that_gets_a_result().or_else([] (auto&& error) { return whatever; });` 3/4 of the code can go away (and things will still likely be faster than most other languages).