alt Hacker News> I don't really understand this decision.
The decision is disappointing, but understandable.
The blog post attempted to explain it, but it comes down to: A lot of energy has been expended without the community and the core team reaching any form of consensus. The current error handling mechanism has entrenched itself as idiomatic for a very long time now. And since the promising ones among the various proposals involve language changes, the core team, which is stretched already, isn't willing to commit to it at this time, especially given the impact.
This paragraph alone is fundamentally better than the page or so of text in the blog post.
I'm not sure what it is about the style of technical writing I've seen lately but just directly getting to the point versus trying to obfuscate the thesis on a potentially controversial topic is increasingly rare