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MuffinFlavored on Oct 9, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: My negative views on Rust (2023)

Who uses panic instead of `?` and anyhow / Box<dyn Error> (error propagation?)

I think there is even a (gross) way to achieve try/catch around a block of code that panics?

pshc on Oct 9, 2024 [–]

Yeah, panic/assert is only for Things That Really Shouldn’t Ever Fail, If They Do Our Base Assumptions Have Broken.

whereas Error is for things that are unlikely to fail, like network/filesystem requests and recoverable logic bugs.

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