alt Hacker NewsWhat are you talking about, only Rust actually forces you to handle errors. Go functions merely return a tuple with an error along with the result, with a convention that you must checktror a non-nil error before using the result.
Rust bakes this into the type system, a function can truly return a result or an error.
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tomhp • yesterday at 11:21 PM
Rust is neither the only nor the first language to contain a result type (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Result_type). Definitely a much nicer way to handle errors though.
> with a convention that you must checktror a non-nil error before using the result.
So, you handle the error in the end, or forcefully and intentionally ignore it. Again, if the code goes boom, it's on the developer, not on Go.
> Rust bakes this into the type system, a function can truly return a result or an error.
Error being a variable or baked into the type system doesn't change the practical result. You must handle the error or purposefully ignore it.
> only Rust actually forces you to handle errors.
When you have two programming languages which makes you handle the error, the word only becomes a little invalid.
Semantics doesn't change the result. You have to acknowledge and act on the error either way.