The Do's and Don'ts of Error Handling • Joe Armstrong • GOTO 2018

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Chicago 2018. #gotocon #gotochgo

Joe Armstrong - Principal Inventor of the Erlang Programming Language

ABSTRACT
Handling errors in programs is tricky.
We want to write systems that work reasonable well even if there are errors in the code. This is possible, and the results have been used in production systems for many years.
This talk outlines the do's and don'ts of error handling. Things you should do if you want to write fault tolerant code, and things you should not do.
I will argue that making fault-tolerant and scalable systems is possible if you [...]

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[SahinKupusoglu]

RIP, Joe Armstrong; I learned about you too late, but will certainly study your work.

[valethemajor]

"Kubernetes--"
Joe: 'Who? Who's that?'

LOL

[esdrasmayrink]

What a fantastic mind.
Sad to hear about your parting, Joe.
The world was better with you here.

[manujbhallaindia]

RIP Joe Armstrong your work made significant impact on software industry

[CottidaeSEA]

Wrap your main/entry point in a try-catch and pretend like nothing bad is happening.

[koredeaderele]

the emphasis on "messaging" in OOP, makes it seem like there's a lot more inherent similarity between FP and fundamental OOP

[thelonearchitect]

Amazing talk, a shame the sound is so bad...

[ximalas]

16:51 Does anyone know what happened to the Bluetail Mail Robustifier?

[JeremyAndersonBoise]

If Joe isn’t among your heroes then you’re still a junior dev.

[edgeeffect]

'The type system doesn't tell you that "open a file, close a file, read the file" is incorrect'.... well, a good type system has a different type for open-file and non-open-file.

[albertofunk]

I call silent and deadly errors "ninja errors" 😀

[eyaswoo]

What if Michael Palin was a computer scientist.

[ujin]

"You can program in Rust and things like that or whatever and maybe you can prove it to be correct" and then get hit by lightning =)

[stevestorck]

The word "do's" is not correct. If it was, why isn't its counterpart written as "don't's"? The answer is that an apostrophe is not punctuation to denote plurality.

[christopherstamp]

Concurrency is the execution of independently executable tasks. It doesn't mean they all are executing at once...

[ImaginaryNumbr]

What a nice person.
The talk was delightful, albeit useless.