Ancestors

Written by Jesse Wilson on 2025-01-05 at 05:40

https://publicobject.com/2025/01/05/try-something-simpler/

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Written by cliffle on 2025-01-06 at 15:45

@jessewilson Good quote pull!

I was amused that you used the word "hubris" in this post, since your "this should never happen, so crash so that we can find the file/line later" is the approach we tend to use in Hubris. 🙂 Armstrong's philosophy has had a lot of influence on my software.

(I assume that ! generates a file/line so you can find it easily.)

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Written by Jesse Wilson on 2025-01-06 at 23:28

@cliffle yes!

My first draft of the post directly claimed that fail-fast is correct and that the never-crash idiom is wrong.

But I decided to post with a bit more humility.

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Written by cliffle on 2025-01-07 at 00:12

@jessewilson I feel like there's a place for both in an application. Like, an application container / webserver should not crash, but I want its individual request serving tasks to fail fast. You can compose the two arbitrarily.

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