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by apta 2197 days ago
> Does any language save you from explicitly screwing up error handling?

It's about the default error handling method being sane. In exception based languages, an unhandled error bubbles up until it reaches a handler, or it crashes the program with a stacktrace.

Compare to what golang does, it's somewhat easy to accidentally ignore or overwrite errors. This leads to silent corruption of state, much worse than crashing the program outright.
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ori_b 2197 days ago
> It's about the default error handling method being sane.

Gorm isn't using the default error handling.

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apta 2197 days ago
That's one point in this discussion. The language allows error handling that way. Compared to a language with proper sum types or exceptions, where one would have to actively work against the language to end up with that mess.
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ori_b 2197 days ago
> That's one point in this discussion. The language allows error handling that way. Compared to a language with proper sum types or exceptions, where one would have to actively work against the language to end up with that mess.

I've seen a bunch of code that does the equivalent of the Java I posted above. Mostly when sending errors across the network.

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