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Me, when doing error handling
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I use the catastrophe theory of error handling: if something fails sanity checks or throws an exception, then kill it with fire: crash the whole program and make the users cry.
True, it’s a pain but.. no more hidden errors that get reported two years later
actually a really bad idea if you're doing anything with critical data between your systems and other systems, like a credit card getting charged on a remote server but then your code crashes
Dev mode is when developing by the programmers. Production means used by others.
When I am working with a service, I want to know immediately when there is a problem.
When I push my code to be used, the dev flag is off and the code does stuff as normal.
For example: if I am making a payment service using a third party, I use sandbox and fake cc numbers. I want things to fail loudly on my computer so I can make things fail silently. And safely, when it’s used with real money. But I can only do that if I know there are issues. And only logging lets some bugs be unnoticed , particularly if a cluttered log. So being loud in development saves tears in production