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Re:Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Mes... by chmod775 on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:14AM (#26191425)
> Error handling has been wrong since the beginning, and has continued to be wrong ever since.

Maybe it's not error-handling that is the problem then, but undisciplined software developers writing bad code?

Out of all the engineering disciplines, us software engineers have to be the worst bunch by far.

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Re:Where Everything Went Wrong: Error Handling and Error Mes... by nx7487 on Friday February 19, 2021 @05:41AM (#26191620)
Yeah, my question is, what's the best direction to go in:

1. Continue trying to create error-handling systems for devs 2. Try to solve this with more generic static (or dynamic) analysis tools.

I mean, maybe what we need to do is make simulator-esque testing more popular, or something.

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