Completely agree - languages like Rust prefer to fail fast and hard. It's certainly an easy to understand solution and is getting the program into a well-known

Completely agree - languages like Rust prefer to fail fast and hard. It's certainly an easy to understand solution and is getting the program into a well-known state, but it's also low effort and user-unfriendly. They could have done better, but they would need real exception support for that.