[throw10920]

When I say "it doesn't work" I mean that it doesn't allow you to write good code, not "doesn't work" as in the sense that people don't like it. That latter one doesn't make any sense, as languages like PHP "work" for many tens (hundreds?) of thousands of people.

I'm well aware of the tendency of Rust programmers to write bad code, constrained by the language, and then be deluded into thinking that that's good code.

[ttfkam]

Lord, grant me the confidence of this man who claims objective understanding of what does and does not constitute "good code".

[throw10920]

I note that you did nothing to refute my point about why error-handling-via-return-values is insufficient and instead resort to emotional manipulation and logical fallacies.

This seems to happen a lot in the Rust community when people point out flaws in the language.

[ttfkam]

Why should I defend Rust? You haven't even defined "good code", which has eluded the best minds in the field for as long as the field has existed.

You are not a serious person.

[throw10920]

I don't need to define "good code" for my argument.

You're not a person capable of using logic, apparently. As is characteristic of Rust zealots.

[ttfkam]

> When I say "it doesn't work" I mean that it doesn't allow you to write good code

But you skipped over how you are defining, "good code"? Without that part, "doesn't allow" cannot be evaluated in the context of Java or C++ or Python or Go or Rust.

Logic.

[throw10920]

Apparently you have difficulty with reading comprehension, because my original comment already defines "good code":

> The result type does not work because you have to choose between immediate callers handling failures (they don't always have the context to do so because they're not aware of the context of callers higher up on the call stack) or between propagating all of your error values all the way up the stack to the error handling point and making your program fantastically brittle and insanely hard to refactor.

It's interactions like this that are the reason why my organization isn't adopting Rust.