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Failsafe-go: resilience patterns for building fault-tolerant Go applications (failsafe-go.dev)
15 points by jodah 998 days ago
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Ah nice. I wasn't previously familiar with Failsafe but I used Hystrix/Resilience4j in Java. At my last gig writing Go I noticed a distinct lack of fault tolerance in certain key services.
Go returning tuples as a norm and a way to handle simultaneously success and failure is the reason I believe go to be a fundamentally unsafe language. With a single binary return value you must successfully handle two cases, every time you increase the number of return flags, you double the complexity.