> being able to choose to ignore exceptions. Many people find this very uncomfortable. I say they are mistaking where the true project risks lie.

It's funny, every language I know gives you an option to basically ignore the error and just pray. I get what your saying, but if this is the type of code you want to produce, you can still do that in other languages that have strong types around Null and Errors.

In Rust for example:

  my_possible_error.unwrap()

In places where you are explicitly making that choice. And to me that's the big difference. Is it explicit or implicit/unknown?