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For some reason the most talked about "alternative" to exceptions seems to be "use optional". I would assume that this has the same debug issues as omitting the

• dllthomas 6y ago
  > I would assume that this has the same debug issues as omitting the stack trace. I don't expect so. If I "forget to handle" an optional, I get an error at compile time pointing at the lines in question. If I forget to handle an exception with an omitted stack trace, IIUC, I am told at runtime that there's an error somewhere in my program. It's much easier to debug the former.