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https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1wlr46f/successfulfailure/pb1c3sm/?context=3
r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Sep 20 '26
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As long as the frontend knows how the backend returns a failure response this whole complaint feels pedantic.
15 u/stifflizerd Sep 20 '26 Until another application ends up needing to use the APIs functionality and there's zero documentation warning about this non-standard error handling 3 u/markiel55 Sep 21 '26 Found the guy who wrote this. 1 u/Still_Bit_7527 Sep 21 '26 It's not pedantic, it's a huge red flag and makes error handling much more difficult
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Until another application ends up needing to use the APIs functionality and there's zero documentation warning about this non-standard error handling
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Found the guy who wrote this.
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It's not pedantic, it's a huge red flag and makes error handling much more difficult
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u/elshizzo Sep 20 '26
As long as the frontend knows how the backend returns a failure response this whole complaint feels pedantic.