I want to talk about fatal logging. It’s practically always a bad idea. Let me explain…
I was recently reviewing some code written in Go, where I saw this pattern in a constructor function:
The Dangers of Fatal Logging
Why You Should Avoid Using Exceptions as the Control Flow in Java
Java is a general-purpose programming language with many alternatives to solving a certain problem. However, there are best practices that need to be followed, and there are some bad practices out there as well that are still commonly used.
One of these common bad practices is using exceptions as the control flow. This should be avoided for two reasons: It reduces the performance of your code as a response per unit time, and it makes your code less readable.