An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages

An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages Target audience: Practitioners interested in programming language design and familiar with representations of errors in at least a few different languages such as error codes, checked/unchecked exceptions, tagged unions, polymorphic variants etc. Estimated reading time: 60 to 90 mins. In research papers on programming languages, there is often a focus on sophisticated type system features to rule out certain classes of errors, whereas error handling itself receives relatively little attention, despite its importance. This doesn’t seem too dissimilar to problems in the database community/literature, where less “cool” topics like better representation for strings receive relatively little attention compared to their importance. See also: What are important data systems problems, ignored by research? and DuckDB creator Hannes Mühleisen’s CIDR 2023 keynote on Developing Systems in Academia for related discussion. For ... Read full article.