2026-02-05 21:04 UTC
I mean the error should say "Whoever wrote this software made a serious mistake that caused it to crash." That's fairly useful imo.
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@firelizzard@programming.dev 2026-02-06 04:14
How is that useful? Because if your answer is “I boycott devs that have type errors”, I got bad news for you. Unless you’re working on mission critical systems, like pace makers, airplanes, spacecraft, financial systems, etc, sinking the necessary engineering time to 100% prevent those kinds of errors is a bad business decision. An error message should either be instructions for the user, or something they copy-paste into a bug report (or equivalent). That’s it.