Re:Ask HN: What are some of the most elegant codebases in yo...
by mike_hock on Saturday June 17, 2023 @06:52PM
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> In Perl, everything serializes to JSON without fuss. It can be "lossy"; objects without an explicit JSON serialization method and coderefs can't be deserialized, but serializations at least have placeholders for them.
> Compare to Python's json module, which doesn't try very hard to serialize things and throws exceptions every time it runs across something new. It's very frustrating to use.
Sounds kinda backwards to me. I thought the fact that throwing exceptions (or "making a fuss," if you will) is better than silently producing incorrect (or "kinda lossy," if you will) results wasn't controversial anymore in 2023.
> Compare to Python's json module, which doesn't try very hard to serialize things and throws exceptions every time it runs across something new. It's very frustrating to use.
Sounds kinda backwards to me. I thought the fact that throwing exceptions (or "making a fuss," if you will) is better than silently producing incorrect (or "kinda lossy," if you will) results wasn't controversial anymore in 2023.