alt Hacker NewsGo can’t have Result because they don’t have sum types, and they can’t add them because of their bizarre insistence that every type has to have a designated zero value.
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stouset • last Wednesday at 7:52 AM
> every type has to have a designated zero value
This bonkers design decision is, as far as I can tell, the underlying infectious cause of nearly every real issue with the language.
> they can’t add them because of their bizarre insistence that every type has to have a designated zero value.
Nothing prevents adding union types with a zero value. Sure it sucks, but so do universal zero values in pretty much every other situation so that's not really a change.