Golang panics in libraries

• errcheck

  9 2,281 6.3 Go

  errcheck checks that you checked errors.

And we also expect that the caller will check the error and handle it. There is a popular linter that checks it for us: errcheck.

• rust

  2,682 92,831 10.0 Rust

  Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

  

In case of modern languages like Golang, Rust, etc. we have a predefined way to work with error handling by specific error types and rules on how to use them. It improves readability and simplifies interfaces of functions.

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• CPython

  1,314 59,531 10.0 Python

  The Python programming language

  

The main idea of this approach is to throw an error from a function up to callers stack until someone will catch it. This way is the most popular way to handle errors in languages with exceptions like Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, etc.

• PHPT

  276 37,289 10.0 C

  The PHP Interpreter

  

With Go it is a bit different. We do not have exceptions, but we have panic and recover functions. Panics by themself are not control-flow statements, they are closer to Java Error type or PHP ErrorException type. They are used to stop execution of the program in case of critical errors that are not related to business flow of the program. In case of Go we can use panic to throw an error and recover to catch it, but we can catch it only in defer functions that are not linear execution code block and applies some limitations on top of it.

• golang-docker

  49 1,433 7.7 Shell

  Docker Official Image packaging for golang

  

With Go it is a bit different. We do not have exceptions, but we have panic and recover functions. Panics by themself are not control-flow statements, they are closer to Java Error type or PHP ErrorException type. They are used to stop execution of the program in case of critical errors that are not related to business flow of the program. In case of Go we can use panic to throw an error and recover to catch it, but we can catch it only in defer functions that are not linear execution code block and applies some limitations on top of it.

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