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SE Radio 644: Tim McNamara on Error Handling in Rust

2024/11/28
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Tim McNamara 详细解释了 Rust 错误处理的四个级别：1. 忽略错误，程序直接崩溃；2. 返回字符串作为错误，需要在调用端进行解释；3. 使用枚举定义多种错误类型，编译器强制处理所有情况；4. 使用第三方库简化错误处理流程。他还探讨了 Rust 错误处理与其他语言的差异，以及如何处理跨 FFI 边界的错误。他强调了 Rust 错误处理的最佳实践：循序渐进地学习，逐步扩展知识，而不是直接追求理想状态。 McNamara 指出，Rust 的错误处理方式与 C++ 等语言不同，它将尽可能多的错误处理工作推到编译阶段，以提高程序的运行速度和安全性。Rust 的类型系统非常严格，这使得在编译时就能发现许多错误，从而避免了运行时错误。 在讨论中，McNamara 还介绍了几种常用的 Rust 错误处理库，例如 `thiserror`、`anyhow` 和 `eyre`，并比较了它们各自的优缺点。`thiserror` 库用于定义枚举类型来表示不同的错误变体；`anyhow` 和 `eyre` 库更适合应用代码，它们简化了错误处理流程。 Gavin Henry 则主要负责引导话题，提出问题，并对 McNamara 的回答进行总结和确认。

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The discussion begins with a fundamental question about what constitutes an error in Rust, exploring the concept and its implications in programming.
  • Errors are defined as unexpected inputs or unsatisfied preconditions that halt program execution.
  • Error handling involves splitting the program into main and exceptional paths.
  • Rust's strict type system helps prevent errors by pushing much of the work to compile time.

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Tim McNamara, a well-known Rust educator, author of Rust in Action (Manning), and a recipient of a Rust Foundation Fellowship in 2023, speaks with SE Radio host Gavin Henry) about error handling in Rust. They discuss the errors that Rust prevents, what an error is in Rust, what Tim classes as the "four levels of error handling," and the lifecycle of your journey reaching for them.

McNamara explains why Rust handles errors as it does, how it differs from other languages, and what the developer experience is like in dealing with Rust errors. He advocates best practices for error handling, what Result is, the power of Rust Enums, what the question mark operator is, when to unwrap, what Box really means, how to deal with errors across the FFI boundary, and the various Rust error-handling crates that you can use to give you more control.

Brought to you by IEEE Computer Society) and IEEE Software magazine).