Inko is an interesting language, though the handling for panics sounds disturbing. Based on the documentation, panics abort the whole program and are not recoverable.
Things like dividing by zero or accessing an index outside of the bounds of an array will panic.
While these aren’t incredibly common, I would never want my whole production web server to go down because some random, infrequently used endpoint had a bug in some edge case.
The language seems heavily inspired by Erlang, which is very resilient to programmer errors in comparison.
In Erlang, the philosophy is to let a lightweight process crash and restart it when there is a problem. This doesn’t need to have any effect on other lightweight processes that are running.
Things like dividing by zero or accessing an index outside of the bounds of an array will panic.
While these aren’t incredibly common, I would never want my whole production web server to go down because some random, infrequently used endpoint had a bug in some edge case.
The language seems heavily inspired by Erlang, which is very resilient to programmer errors in comparison.
In Erlang, the philosophy is to let a lightweight process crash and restart it when there is a problem. This doesn’t need to have any effect on other lightweight processes that are running.