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It's a little old at this point, but I find the Swift Error Handling Rationale design doc to be absolutely fascinating. It cites other language’s error handling paradigms (including Rust) if you're curious:

https://apple-swift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ErrorHandlingRa...

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Fascinating, looking forward to reading this later today! Have used a handful of languages over the years, and I don’t have any academic perspective in different error handling techniques, but there’s no doubt that the way swift does it feels particularly natural, safe, but still gets out of your way. I love all the options for handling errors in a meaningful way.

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