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Programming Languages

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Hello!

This is the current Lemmy equivalent of https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/.

The content and rules are the same here as they are over there. Taken directly from the /r/ProgrammingLanguages overview:

This community is dedicated to the theory, design and implementation of programming languages.

Be nice to each other. Flame wars and rants are not welcomed. Please also put some effort into your post.

This isn't the right place to ask questions such as "What language should I use for X", "what language should I learn", and "what's your favorite language". Such questions should be posted in /c/learn_programming or /c/programming.

This is the right place for posts like the following:

See /r/ProgrammingLanguages for specific examples

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Target audience: Practitioners interested in programming language design and familiar with representations of errors in at least a few different languages such as error codes, checked/unchecked exceptions, tagged unions, polymorphic variants etc.

Estimated reading time: 60 to 90 mins.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

This looks interesting. I had been wondering what if anything the PL experts were saying about the lack of exceptions in Rust.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Quoting the conclusion:

The fundamental nature of errors is that they are often multi-faceted, and complex to reason about by virtue of being multi-faceted. The wide variety of socio-technical contexts that software is created, delivered and used in add further complexity.


The linked The Error Model article is very exhaustive and good.

They end with more concrete experience/findings/conclusions - given the context of a more concrete project and scope and goals.