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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by soulbadguy on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:26PM (#14083791)
> code between it and the catch block didn't anticipate/handle correctly

This sounds like a general errors handling issue that nor exceptions nor monadic errors types can prevent.

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by dpc_pw on Monday April 10, 2017 @08:51PM (#14083957)
No language can fix mistakes, but in Rust if you have a() calling b() which calls c(), there is no way* that c can jump to a without any indication of it in b. You at least need to have `?` somewhere in b. I consider it a really good thing, among other advantages.

* panic + catch_unwind, but that's special and not meant or used in practice for error handling

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Re:Ask HN: Will Rust ever become a mainstream systems progra... by mmstick on Monday April 10, 2017 @10:13PM (#14084328)
Rust requires at compile-time that you handle each case.
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