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# Toby Hobson

@thobson · Joined May 2023

Polyglot programmer with a passion for functional languages

## Comments

[I just discovered this. Coming from a Scala background I really dislike the whole exception paradigm. Even Go (one of the most basic languages) shuns exceptions in favour of a primitive Either pattern. Thanks so much for sharing!](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-catching-errors-in-typescript-use-the-either-type-to-make-your-code-predictable/61740f980f452c1cd94fa17c/comment/6464a31ca2c49bc61afe4329)

Comment · Article · May 17, 2023 · [Stop catching errors in TypeScript; Use the Either type to make your code predictable](https://hashnode.com/posts/stop-catching-errors-in-typescript-use-the-either-type-to-make-your-code-predictable/61740f980f452c1cd94fa17c)