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Hyrum's Law in Golang

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107 points thunderbong | 1 comments | 21 Nov 24 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.254s | source
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adontz ◴[21 Nov 24 08:28 UTC] No.42202248[source]▶
This is a good example of "stringly typed" software. Golang designers did not want exceptions (still have them with panic/recover), but untyped errors are evil. On the other hand, how would one process typed errors without pattern matching? Because "catch" in most languages is a [rudimentary] pattern matching.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-ref...

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KRAKRISMOTT ◴[21 Nov 24 08:30 UTC] No.42202266[source]▶
Go has typed errors, it just didn't use it in this case.
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1. adontz ◴[21 Nov 24 09:47 UTC] No.42202617[source]▶
Nobody teaches people to use them. There is no analog to "catch most specific exceptions" culture in other languages.