In Elixir, error handling is considered “code smell.” I’ll take a second to let you read that again. I think that this makes a lot of sense. My experience in j

In Elixir, error handling is considered “code smell.” I’ll take a second to let you read that again. I think that this makes a lot of sense. My experience in just about any language, is that the official means of error handling already feels like a code smell, even before you start using it. And if that's not the case, then it still manages to feel that way when used in a large project. Lots of Smalltalk projects would actually handle errors by saving the image on an unhandled exception. For server applications, this was like having a "live" core dump where the debugger could open up right on the errant stack frame, and you could perform experiments to aid in debugging.