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Exceptions are often a better way to handle errors than returning them as values. We argue that traditional exceptions provide better user and developer experience, and show that they even result in faster execution.
I think with http request failures losing the status code can be a real pain. There’s a big difference between 400, 401, 404 and 500 for instance.