> It's a bit amusing to me how "checked errors" in general has made a comeback in Go and Rust, and in many newer languages like Zig (and now this one) as well.

> It's a bit amusing to me how "checked errors" in general has made a comeback in Go and Rust, and in many newer languages like Zig (and now this one) as well. For what it's worth, checked errors have been part of the ML family of languages (some of the immediate ancestors of Rust) since pretty much forever and of LISP even longer. Still, let's give credit where it's due: very few people used them before Java.