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True, but I think the "low-level" complaint against Go in the article was just referring to all the stupid repetitive ceremony required for error handling, whic

• Expurple 1y ago
  Fair enough. That's what they seem to be saying. But then I want to chime in and argue that the repetitive syntax isn't even close to being the main problem with Go: https://home.expurple.me/posts/go-did-not-get-error-handling-right/ https://home.expurple.me/posts/go-did-not-get-error-handling...
  • sgt 1y ago
    So, while on that subject; does Zig get error handling right?
    • Expurple 1y ago
      Idk, I'm not familiar enough with Zig to say
    • lblume 1y ago
      It does seem to: https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book/Chapters/09-error-handling.html https://pedropark99.github.io/zig-book/Chapters/09-error-han... However errors do not seem to commonly wrapped, tagged or contextualized as is the case in Rust. This might weight lower verbosity as more important than extremely structured error handling which definitely constitutes an interesting approach.
    • osigurdson 1y ago
      I think it does.