Hacker News with Generative AI: Error Handling

Better Error Handling (meowbark.dev)
Bad error handling has cost billions of dollars, crashed planes, killed people, tanked stock markets, wrecked vehicles, and delayed flights. As we reflect on Halloween, it’s fitting to consider these horror stories of software gone wrong. You can read more about them in my A Halloween scary story, based on true events, or watch this newly minted Fireship video.

Software Development, Error Handling, Programming

72 points by zdgeier 6 days ago | 97 comments

Can jank beat Clojure's error reporting? (jank-lang.org)
Hey folks! I've spent the past quarter working on jank's error messages. I've focused on reaching parity with Clojure's error reporting and improving upon it where possible.

Programming Languages, Clojure, Error Handling, Software Development

11 points by Jeaye 29 days ago | 1 comments

Show HN: A Simple Inbox for Your Exceptions and Odd Events (wt.tools)

Tools, Programming, Error Handling, Debugging

10 points by bh213 40 days ago | 0 comments

Decoding JSON sum types in Go without panicking (nicolashery.com)
The Go programming language doesn't have native support for sum types, but we'll see how we can emulate them, how to decode and encode them into JSON, and how in some cases they can help avoid runtime panic exceptions.

Go, Programming, JSON, Sum Types, Error Handling

60 points by misonic 41 days ago | 27 comments

Why Every Programming Language Sucks at Error Handling (aiono.dev)
Proper error handling is hard. It's a concept since the inception of programming, yet solutions we have are hardly satisfying. When one tries to add proper error handling into their code it gets much more complicated than just implementing the happy path. Part of it is inescapable because it's essential complexity, but part of the complication is not necessary hence accidental complexity.

Programming Languages, Error Handling, Software Development

14 points by kugurerdem 46 days ago | 13 comments

Why Go's Error Handling Is Awesome (rauljordan.com)
Go's infamous error handling has caught quite the attention from outsiders to the programming language, often touted as one of the language's most questionable design decisions.

Programming Languages, Go, Error Handling

25 points by chautumn 48 days ago | 28 comments

An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages (typesanitizer.com)
In research papers on programming languages, there is often a focus on sophisticated type system features to rule out certain classes of errors, whereas error handling itself receives relatively little attention, despite its importance.

Programming Languages, Error Handling, Type Systems

221 points by transpute 49 days ago | 76 comments

eserde – a serde that just doesn't stop (github.com/mainmatter)
Don't stop at the first deserialization error.

Software, Programming, Rust, Libraries, Error Handling

57 points by weinzierl 67 days ago | 25 comments

Discussion: Reduce error handling boilerplate in Golang using '?' (github.com/golang)

Golang, Programming, Error Handling, Software Development

48 points by omani 88 days ago | 91 comments

Syntax error recovery in parsing expression grammars (PEG parsers) (arxiv.org)
Parsing Expression Grammars (PEGs) are a formalism used to describe top-down parsers with backtracking. As PEGs do not provide a good error recovery mechanism, PEG-based parsers usually do not recover from syntax errors in the input, or recover from syntax errors using ad-hoc, implementation-specific features. The lack of proper error recovery makes PEG parsers unsuitable for using with Integrated Development Environments (IDEs), which need to build syntactic trees even for incomplete, syntactically invalid programs.

Parsing, Programming Languages, Computer Science, Error Handling

6 points by fanf2 119 days ago | 0 comments

Error Stacking in Rust (greptime.com)
A detailed exploration of error handling in Rust within GreptimeDB, proposing improvements and discussing future work.

Rust, Error Handling, Databases, Programming Languages

137 points by samanthasu 128 days ago | 102 comments

How we centralized and structured error handling in Golang (olivernguyen.io)
Handling errors in Go is simple and flexible – yet no structure!

Golang, Programming, Error Handling

171 points by thunderbong 129 days ago | 256 comments

Idiomatic Errors in Clojure (daveliepmann.com)
The idiomatic Clojure approach to error-handling is that there isn’t one. There’s a whole bunch.

Clojure, Programming Languages, Error Handling

97 points by harperlee 135 days ago | 42 comments

Union types ('enum types') would be complicated in Go (utoronto.ca)
Every so often, people wish that Go had enough features to build some equivalent of Rust's Result type or Option type, often so that Go programmers could have more ergonomic error handling.

Programming Languages, Go, Rust, Error Handling

28 points by misonic 144 days ago | 50 comments

Bringing Faster Exceptions to Rust (purplesyringa.moe)
Three months ago, I wrote about why you might want to use panics for error handling.

Rust, Programming Languages, Error Handling

103 points by stpn 170 days ago | 34 comments

The Ultimate Guide to Error Handling in Python (miguelgrinberg.com)
I often come across developers who know the mechanics of Python error handling well, yet when I review their code I find it to be far from good.

Python, Programming, Error Handling, Best Practices

96 points by kdamica 198 days ago | 28 comments

Rust error handling (bitfieldconsulting.com)
Things are always going wrong, as I’m sure you’ve noticed, and that applies to our programs too. Sometimes when a function call asks a question, there’s no answer to return—either because some error happened, or because the correct answer is, simply, “no results”.

Rust, Programming Languages, Error Handling

47 points by bitfield 224 days ago | 61 comments

Why I Prefer Exceptions to Error Values (cedardb.com)
Good error handling is key to robust programs, but often dreaded by programmers because there is always one more edge case.

Programming, Software Development, Error Handling

48 points by pfent 228 days ago | 21 comments

Guide to Error Handling in Rust (howtocodeit.com)

Rust, Programming, Error Handling

32 points by eventhelix 244 days ago | 25 comments

Ask HN: Why Implement "Something Went Wrong" Error Messages? (ycombinator.com)

Web Development, User Experience, Error Handling

12 points by MollyRealized 246 days ago | 21 comments

"We ran out of columns" (jimmyhmiller.github.io)

Software, Development, Error Handling, Programming

1641 points by poidos 266 days ago | 565 comments

A new approach to error handling (boomla.com)