Re:The Inevitability of the Borrow Checker
by caspper69 on Friday February 07, 2025 @07:22PM
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It seems to me that exceptions have a bad rep.
Complaints range from too slow to hidden control flow to just not liking them.
I absolutely see the benefit in application code, otherwise you're error checking every function call.
On the other hand, I completely understand not using such a mechanism in kernel and driver code.
But Rust has decided against exceptions (which I actually believe were part of the original vision way back when, but please don't quote me), so now there's panics.
Complaints range from too slow to hidden control flow to just not liking them.
I absolutely see the benefit in application code, otherwise you're error checking every function call.
On the other hand, I completely understand not using such a mechanism in kernel and driver code.
But Rust has decided against exceptions (which I actually believe were part of the original vision way back when, but please don't quote me), so now there's panics.
Everything is a tradeoff at some level.