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orphea
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Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem
Like goto, unwrap is just a tool that has its use cases. No need to make a boogeyman out of it.
gishh
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To be fair, if you’re not “this tall” you really shouldn’t consider using goto in a c program. Most people aren’t that tall.
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tucnak
11 days ago
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Nonsense. Linux kernel for one example, uses goto everywhere for error handling.
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gishh
6 days ago
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How many codebases besides the Linux kernel had you seen an intentional amount of use of goto?
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orphea
4 days ago
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The answer is one search away on GitHub.
I will give you one example though: various .NET repositories (runtime, aspnetcore, orleans).
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metaltyphoon
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Yes it's meant to be used in test code. If you're sure it can't fail do then use .expect() that way it shows you made a choice and it wasn't just a dev oversight.
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fwjafwasd
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panicans should be using .expect() in production
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