alt Hacker NewsThe fact that you either need a third party dependency or a large amount of boilerplate just to get decent error reporting, points to an issue in the language or std library design.
I've started also dropping `thiserror` when building libraries, as I don't want upstream users of my libraries to incur this additional dependency, but it's a pain.
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01HNNWZ0MV43FF • today at 8:34 AM
> points to an issue in the language or std library design.
Rust has a too-small stdlib because they want to avoid a calcified stdlib like C++ and Python, which both have too-big stdlibs.
This is a law of nature, your stdlib can either be too small or too big. It cannot be the right size. At least it isn't C.
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Why are people disagreeing with this? This is absolutely a problem that most other languages don't have. If you want to claim that Rust's error system is "better" than anything else (as the author did), you should have a good argument about why this exact problem the parent commenter described, which to me is a major problem, does not (maybe) cancel out all the other purported benefits of Rust's error system!