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The weird part of rust is replacing straight forward semicolons from other languages with the more verbose
.unwrap();.Just kidding, don't lecture me about it.
The amount of people on the internet seriously complaining that both Rust error handling sucks and that
.unwrap();is too verbose is just staggering.I think the problem is that many introductory examples use
unwrap, so many beginner programmers don’t get exposed to alternatives likeunwrap_orand the likes.Yeah, we onboarded some folks into a Rust project last year and a few months in, they were genuinely surprised when I told them that unwrapping is pretty bad. Granted, they probably did read about it at some point and just forgot, but that isn't helped by lots of code using
.unwrap()either.