The amount of people on the internet seriously complaining that both Rust error handling sucks and that .unwrap(); is too verbose is just staggering.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours 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.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 17 points 1 day ago

I think the problem is that many introductory examples use unwrap, so many beginner programmers don’t get exposed to alternatives like unwrap_or and the likes.