In the previous post, I covered a quick overview of error handling approaches in different languages. Then, I introduced Rust’s error handling using the Result<T, E> enum. This time we’ll look at how Rust’s approach improves on other techniques. Compared to Error Returns Returning a Result<T, E> from a function is very much like the… Read More »
For the last couple of years, I’ve been learning Rust in my free time (ha!) by working on side projects. Since I don’t really have a deadline, I can focus on seeing how Rust changes the way I think about programming. A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth… Read More »
I’m finally getting back to my blog after YAPC::NA. It’s been a while since I wrote, so I figured I would start off easy. Many months ago, I stumbled across yet another article describing how hard exceptions are (The Old New Thing : Cleaner, more elegant, and harder to recognize). It’s an old article and… Read More »
As I said in Joel on Wrong-Looking Code, I find Joel on Software to be a good source of information on programming. However, I don’t always agree with him. In Joel on Software – Making Wrong Code Look Wrong, Joel states that he does not like exceptions. He also refers to a previous article Joel… Read More »