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There was a point years ago when I was surprised to find out that you can throw things other than strings...

subclassing Error was a mess.. almost 'not supported'.

For old times sake.. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1382107/whats-a-good-way...

I think the last time I threw anything else than an Error was in 2012 or so.

Old it is I guess - both of us.

I either throw an Error or something that extends Error. Makes sense, right?

Same, although I always thought it was a terrible practice as I'm always reading error.message or error.stack straight away. And if an error does not have a stack then I will call the police on whoever wrote this shit!

I recently started throwing bare string instead of Error objects, just because of all the Error: prefixes that are prepended to the error message when you throw an Error. It just clutters up the stack trace.

More generally I wish there was an Error constructor that automatically records and the function, arguments, and other semantically meaningful information when called. File and line numbers do not make for a pleasant experience when inspecting a stack trace.

That was the norm maybe 15-20 years ago. These days it's a mortal sin to throw from something that isn't derived from Error.