[tsimionescu]

Realistic options are not limited to "handle at every point of the call stack where an error is encountered" like Go and "end program execution as soon as an error is encountered". Most programs handle most errors by bubbling them up to some top-level event loop and presenting some variant of abort/retry/fail to users. Exceptions are tailor-made to cover this use-case.

[habibur]

> errors by bubbling them up to some top-level event loop and presenting some variant of abort/retry/fail to users

The pros and cons of this approach have been covered extensively in the last decade.

the points discussed were --

// <well what's the point of arguing on the net anyway??>