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0 pointsbluejekyll9y ago0 comments

> being able to choose to ignore exceptions. Many people find this very uncomfortable. I say they are mistaking where the true project risks lie.

It's funny, every language I know gives you an option to basically ignore the error and just pray. I get what your saying, but if this is the type of code you want to produce, you can still do that in other languages that have strong types around Null and Errors.

In Rust for example:

  my_possible_error.unwrap()

In places where you are explicitly making that choice. And to me that's the big difference. Is it explicit or implicit/unknown?

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danmux9y ago

Fair point, just differing levels of hoops to jump through, or general expectations of best practice. In that sense I would say Java and C# do not allow you to 'ignore' exceptions.

I suspect your "pray" == monitor closely and fix fast (often never).

I agree it can be problematic that there is nothing in the language that indicates that the author is explicitly in 'pray' mode. It could well be that even a brief defence of a missing error check during a PR code review is not worth avoiding (un-triggered) err handling.

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