A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghost themes

Re:A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghos... by threeseed on Saturday April 25, 2015 @08:36PM (#9440067)

I'm confused what makes exception handling so troublesome ?

Personally I find them essential in particular for larger codebases. They allow for centralised, consistent error handling behaviour. For example paging application support teams only for certain types of errors.

And you can always emulate explicit error recovery with exceptions. So what is so bad about having the flexibilty to accomodate different styles of error handling.

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Re:A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghos... by xienze on Saturday April 25, 2015 @10:28PM (#9440298)

Yeah, I don't understand the objection to exceptions either. I _think_ the reason is because people treat them much the same was as errors in C/Go/etc., i.e., "I have to catch them here and recover right away." If you're doing it that way, you're doing it wrong. Design the system such that exceptions can be rethrown (bubbled up) and defer the handling as long as possible.

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Re:A minimal blog engine written in Go, compatible with Ghos... by mike_hearn on Sunday April 26, 2015 @02:14PM (#9442691)

Nothing. This is one of those "Go doesn't have it, so it must be bad" things. The way Go handles errors is a throwback to C and was abandoned by literally every single imperative language for good reasons.

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