Last year, I was at a conference giving a talk about error handling and Joe Arms...

michaelfeathers on April 20, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Joe Armstrong has died

Last year, I was at a conference giving a talk about error handling and Joe Armstrong was in the audience. I went through a bunch of strategies for mitigation and handling of errors and Joe yelled from the back "just let it crash! just let it crash!" I had to reply, "but we're not all using Erlang yet."