You really don't have to worry about it. The VM takes care of it for you. Unlike go, there are process listeners that keep track of what's going on. File descriptors are owned by a process id, and if the id goes down it gets closed.
Yup - higher level languages do that basic stuff for you. But it can't do all cleanup for you. For example, if a subprocess needs to write two files, and it crashed after writing the first file due to some exception, there will only be one file on the disk. You need to either account for the possibility there will only be one file (when you expected there to be zero or two) or do something to clean up that already-written file.
There is zero extra verbosity because you write zero lines of code to get these features.
I talked about verbosity in the no-exceptions style error handling, not the one in the exceptions style.
As for the tuples, I wouldn't call it trendy since it's inherited from erlang, which has had it since the 80s.
Erlang had tuples, but didn't use them for returned value based error handling. At least, not from what I could see with a quick google. Elixir does use them for error handling.
I think you have been misinformed about elixir or erlang and suggest you give it a try before continuing to make assertions about it.
My "assertions" about Elixir is that it uses both exceptions and pattern-matching-on-returned-values for error handling. Is this incorrect?
At least, not from what I could see with a quick google
ok tuples and error tuples are literally everywhere in erlang. The result type for gen_server start function, for example, is {ok, Pid} | ignore | {error, Error}.
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Yup - higher level languages do that basic stuff for you. But it can't do all cleanup for you. For example, if a subprocess needs to write two files, and it crashed after writing the first file due to some exception, there will only be one file on the disk. You need to either account for the possibility there will only be one file (when you expected there to be zero or two) or do something to clean up that already-written file.
I talked about verbosity in the no-exceptions style error handling, not the one in the exceptions style.
Erlang had tuples, but didn't use them for returned value based error handling. At least, not from what I could see with a quick google. Elixir does use them for error handling.
My "assertions" about Elixir is that it uses both exceptions and pattern-matching-on-returned-values for error handling. Is this incorrect?
ok tuples and error tuples are literally everywhere in erlang. The result type for gen_server start function, for example, is {ok, Pid} | ignore | {error, Error}.