• Chris Woodruff
• May 4, 2025
• Rust
• .NET, C#, dotnet, programming, rust
• 0 Comments

Day 24… today we’re digging into one of my favorite “why doesn’t every language have this?” features in Rust: the ? operator.

If you’ve spent any time in C#, you’re no stranger to the good ol’ try/catch flow. You wrap some code in a try, you catch the exception, and you hope you didn’t forget to check for null or some unexpected state.

Rust takes a different approach with Result and the magic of the ? operator. It keeps your error handling clean, readable, and safe without the overhead (or drama) of exceptions.