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559 points Gricha | 1 comments | 08 Dec 25 21:33 UTC | HN request time: 0.195s | source
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written-beyond ◴[08 Dec 25 22:25 UTC] No.46198479[source]▶
> I like Rust's result-handling system, I don't think it works very well if you try to bring it to the entire ecosystem that already is standardized on error throwing.

I disagree, it's very useful even in languages that have exception throwing conventions. It's good enough for the return type for Promise.allSettled api.

The problem is when I don't have the result type I end up approximating it anyway through other ways. For a quick project I'd stick with exceptions but depending on my codebase I usually use the Go style ok, err tuple (it's usually clunkier in ts though) or a rust style result type ok err enum.

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1. turboponyy ◴[11 Dec 25 16:11 UTC] No.46233197[source]▶
I have the same disagreement. TypeScript with its structural and pseudo-dependent typing, somewhat-functionally disposed language primitives (e.g. first-class functions as values, currying) and standard library interfaces (filter, reduce, flatMap et al), and ecosystem make propagating information using values extremely ergonomic.

Embracing a functional style in TypeScript is probably the most productive I've felt in any mainstream programming language. It's a shame that the language was defiled with try/catch, classes and other unnecessary cruft so third party libraries are still an annoying boundary you have to worry about, but oh well.

The language is so well-suited for this that you can even model side effects as values, do away with try/catch, if/else and mutation a la Haskell, if you want[1].

[1] https://effect.website/