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Sesse__ • today at 8:43 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

That works fine as long as nobody actually uses the unhappy path. If major libraries and frameworks do it all the time, you lose. So there is a certain aspect of culture outside what the language itself is capable of doing.


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cpburns2009 • today at 12:09 PM

If there's common real world paths that need to be supported, you can tailor optimizations to target those uses cases.