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> And I'm no Rust developer, but it looks to me like it basically demonstrates how Rust is an abject failure in that regard. The developer has to jump through lots of nonobvious hoops and choose between competing libraries to get anything useful.

As a rust developer, there are other ways to skin a cat, or an Error return as it were. For the std::net library (I've been using it when dealing with tcp/udp sockets), when a socket returns an Error, it uses std::io::Error [1]. This is basically a struct that implements the display and Error traits, it stores an enum inside of the types of errors that you may want / need to ignore/ handle. You don't technically need to use libs to do anything error related.

This code has been round since Rust 1.0. Imho, this is kinda how Rust should tell people to make/handle errors. I like it. But I also have found rust enums to be extremely powerful in a lot of use cases.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/io/struct.Error.html