> It's all just plumbing, and people demonstrably do it badly if we judge by how well the typical node module deals with unexpected failures. The official node

> It's all just plumbing, and people demonstrably do it badly if we judge by how well the typical node module deals with unexpected failures. The official node policy on exceptions is that you should let the process die. Not because it's impossible to write exception-safe code, but because almost nobody does it, because it's too hard to do when you're plumbing it all by hand. If it needs to be said, that's two (three?) enormous overgeneralizations and one wrong statement. (Can you point to the official policy on all exceptions allowing processes to die? I don't believe that's what the official documentation or best practices have ever advocated.) The vast majority of operational errors in Node.js are Errors but not exceptions, so your statement is also misleading in that way.