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Hyrum's Law in Golang

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188 points thunderbong | 2 comments | 21 Nov 24 07:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.438s | source
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apitman ◴[21 Nov 24 08:29 UTC] No.42202259[source]▶
When I clicked on the link to codebases relying on the specific error string, I was expecting to see random side projects. Wasn't expecting to see Grafana and Caddy on the list.
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1. gwd ◴[21 Nov 24 11:29 UTC] No.42203232[source]▶
To be fair to those projects, the type was introduced only three years ago:

https://github.com/golang/go/pull/49359/files

Before that, doing a string compare was basically the only way to detect that specific error. That was definitely an omission on the part of the original authors of the stdlib code; I don't it should be classified as "Hyrum's Law".

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2. apitman ◴[21 Nov 24 15:17 UTC] No.42205108[source]▶
Yeah I don't doubt it was the best option. Just a bit surprised.