> The idea that you would add a dependency to avoid writing a try-catch in a loop is absolutely bewildering to me. Reliable retry is very important in some cas

> The idea that you would add a dependency to avoid writing a try-catch in a loop is absolutely bewildering to me. Reliable retry is very important in some cases, and it's easier to test a retry-agnostic unit of code. Edit: and I also rather like that it's declarative, rather than needing to infer intention or write my own boilerplate to explicate intention.