alt Hacker NewsYou should try it with BEAM languages and the 'let it crash' style of programming. With pattern matching and process isolated per request you basically only need to code the happy path, and if garbage comes in you just let the process crash. Combined with the TDD plugin (bit of a hidden gem), you can absolutely write production level services this way.
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vbezhenar • last Tuesday at 10:34 PM
You don't need BEAM languages. I'm using Java and I always write my code in "let it crash" style, to spend time on happy paths and avoid spending time on error handling. I think that's the only sane way to write code and it hurts me to see all the useless error handling code people write.
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Crashing is the good case. What people worry about is tacit data corruption, or other silently incorrect logic, in cases you didn’t explicitly test for.