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Learning to program in rust (programming.dev)
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[–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

I’ll be honest, when I was learning to program in Java I mostly just wrapped errors in an empty try catch to shut them up, with no regard for actually handling them.

I assume most other learners do that too.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Java requiring you to write every exception that can happen in your code isn't helpful.

    Explicit error types are great, but Java managed to make them on a way where you get almost none of the upside and is so full of downsides that indoctrinated a generation into thinking knowing your errors is bad.

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