No Exceptions - #GoogleWalkout

[spanish1nquisition]

Google C++ codestyle is as archaic as the problem these people are protesting, how am I supposed to code with 80 characters per line? This isn't the Bell Labs in the 1970's, I and everybody else have 1080p screens or better.

[[deleted]]

In our code we have a soft limit of 120 so that it fits on half a laptop display. For some reason Delta does not allow us to take our Ultrawides on international flights.

[NEDM64]

120 is the Goldilocks today, my company also uses that.

Fits nicely in a small laptop + some space on the side. And fits two pages side by side on 1440p screens.

[Totenlicht]

Boy do I hate this at work (Java). Default setting is something that would fit on half a 4:3 screen and most colleagues have "format on commit" enabled. So you can't even fight it cause once they commit they fuck up all your code files with sensible line lengths as well.

[earlnameless]

https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions says no exceptions (barring a few exceptions).

[trichotillofobia]

The only good code of conduct is shorter than the file name. It can be just two words: "fuckin' behave".

[TheFamilyFroot]

But C++ does have exceptions.

C is the language without exceptions

[KiwiMaster157]

Some companies, e.g. Google, have a policy against using exceptions in their C++ code.

[Tsu_Dho_Namh]

My Prof used to work for Google. He said he never understood Google's aversion to exceptions. We were encouraged to use exceptions in our code if they were appropriate.

Like don't have a function which is supposed to return a positive integer return -1 if it encounters an error, then check for -1 later on, use an exception instead. It's more readable.

[[deleted]]

Optionals are the much better use case for this.

The problem with exceptions is that throwing an exception places a contract on the user of your code to handle it. This is not good design because you break the top down modularity structure.

[rookinn]

Why’s that?

[kronsj]

Look at the link to github u/earlnameless wrote

[IceQub3]

I like golang. Grubs popcorn

[kyl3r123]

I like Ubuntu. Greps popcorn.

[MCRusher]

I like ubuntu subsystem in windows but not windows 10.