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otabdeveloper4
6 days ago
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Why is Zig so cool?
Yeah, every single newbie programming language designer starts with a maximalist position of "exceptions are hard, just return an error code", and then end up inventing their own shitty, ad-hoc and malfeatured exception handling system.
I want off this ride.
oofbey
6 days ago
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Go seems to do alright without exceptions. It’s just a convention to return errors, which seems fine as a practice.
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I want off this ride.