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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’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.
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.