alt Hacker NewsAlso known as contract programming vs. defensive programming. This argument is very old, is not specific to golang, and I have found myself on both sides at different points in my carreer.
Also known as contract programming vs. defensive programming. This argument is very old, is not specific to golang, and I have found myself on both sides at different points in my carreer.
Fortunately we have type systems to encode many contracts at compile time, including stuff like optionality. Certainly no modern language would still repeat Hoare’s "billion dollar mistake"? Right? …Oh.