I think we've hit on our point of disagreement: > 99% of these programs will just exception out if say that file is deleted between the non-atomic time it take

I think we've hit on our point of disagreement: > 99% of these programs will just exception out if say that file is deleted between the non-atomic time it takes to do verification and action. And there is nothing considered very wrong with that: you screw with the environment of an application while its running, bad things are expected to happen. I would much rather strive to always do the right thing, if possible, because I do consider that wrong. The pervasiveness of the `Result` type in Rust makes it much easier for me to do so; the cost to you is that you must write `unwrap()` instead of nothing. On the other hand, if unchecked exceptions are the error handling default, I have no recourse in order to discover what possible errors can occur from a function call other than to read the function's source code, while you just save typing `unwrap()`. To me, Rust's solution seems like an eminently reasonable tradeoff.