Why static analysis is the way to go

[Meta]

On Saturday, 30 May 2026 at 10:55:41 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 May 2026 at 06:43:13 UTC, Meta wrote:
>> On Saturday, 30 May 2026 at 06:14:25 UTC, monkyyy wrote:
>>> a) exceptions airnt useful
>>
>> I dunno why everyone hates exceptions. They're incredibly 
>> useful, and generally significantly reduce the complexity of 
>> your code. Like pretty much everything in programming, 
>> misusing them will of course cause major issues.
>
> Far too easy to forget that calling a function may throw an 
> exception. And 'misuse' is so widespread, it's even in Phobos 
> with auto-decoding.

This is where checked exceptions come in. I don't care what 
anyone else says, they're more useful than harmful, and people 
are undeservedly biased against checked exceptions because they 
read that one article from that guy, that says checked exceptions 
are bad.