Previous threads:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20496043 [22/7/2019] (103 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cjcwmu [29/7/2019] (46 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cfz8q0 [21/7/2019] (94 comments)

https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/cfz8lo [21/7/2019] (49 comments)

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Maybe I'm missing a nuance here but what's wrong with just using a Result / Either monad here. It seems cleaner than overloading try/catch...