Oh also empty catch blocks

You monster 😫

That isn't a thing?

I mean, not me. A friend of mine does use that. Yeah. That...monster!

@runfrodorun agreed, it's not the tidiest of patterns.

I've just had too many instances where I've been debugging a production issue and have found that the application has crapped out, but has kept trundling along because the problem's been suppressed by an empty catch block... I can't even

I actually made one because of a stupid exception that occurred only when windows was shutting down (and in the mean time prevented windows from doing so). The catch made the program terminate properly and safely.

It's a long time ago so I might have logged the event but certainly did not handle it properly.

@runfrodorun Yeah, after trying Rust, I miss the exception/try/catch, but at least I handle my errors the right way in one language now

At least log it 😭😭😭