The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker

Re:The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker by paulddraper on Friday February 07, 2025 @06:39PM (#42978776)

> I would never want my whole production web server to go down because some random, infrequently used endpoint had a bug in some edge case.

Then you need an alternative.

And that alternative is...messy. Do you have exceptions? Do you type them? Or do you have explicit return values? Is there syntax sugar? Etc, etc.

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Re:The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker by brokencode on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:42PM (#42979206)

All error handling is messy in one way or another. I am personally a fan of the exceptions in C#. It’s good enough for me and doesn’t make me add a bunch of error types to all my methods.

I also like the Erlang philosophy of letting the lightweight process crash as soon as any problem occurs and having a supervisor decide what to do.

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