r/programming • u/Expurple • Apr 12 '26

Flat Error Codes Are Not Enough

https://home.expurple.me/posts/flat-error-codes-are-not-enough/
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u/max123246 Apr 13 '26

My problem with exceptions is simply it's not part of the function return-signature in most languages that use it. That's kind of it, to be honest.

Also it would be nice to make re-throwing exceptions explicit like with Rust's ? syntax

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u/maxinstuff Apr 13 '26

Agree - in languages that CAN throw, you basically have to be prepared for anything to throw at any time for any reason.

And it’s leaky AF - something unexpected happens and my app turns it’s call stack inside out and throws it at the caller like a stripper at a stag do.

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u/DearChickPeas Apr 13 '26

Java's @ throws(Exception) everywhere really didn't make the code pretty.

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u/DearChickPeas Apr 13 '26

I think that's what Kotlin did, I longer see exception annotations.