Javascript should have try blocks without the need for catch or finally....... IMO

Why?

Having literally a “ignore errors” syntax just invites even worse code.

You can still do it with an empty catch but then its at least a bit more obvious your doing it.

Even when its relevant I would still want the catch to have some comment on why you have no error handling.

Just when debugging it's annoying when debugging SSR react apps having to add a catch block when you're just debugging window usages

And if you use eslint you have to add // ignore or nothing as a comment in the catch block just to stop the empty block error..

Kotlin library like ArrowJS could be what you're looking for, maybe sth like that exists in JavaScript, too?

https://arrow-kt.io/learn/...

@lopu and that is a good thing.

Old vbscript had an “on error resume” statement that just ignored errors and it was a dumpster fire solution resulting in so many invisible problems.

Forcing you to be explicit with ignoring is good.

Also? That empty catch, is a good place for a break point :)

Having used js since its inception back in netscape 2 I see no reason to make it easier to ignore errors, I would even want it to enforce a real statement in the catch making it even more annoying to ignore errors.

Dumb take.

yes please.

This language is a shitshow already, just mess it up more, until it's unusable.

Don't forget to also throw in goto and make whitespaces optional.

Just don’t wrap your code in a try block

It does!!

They are used by default, so you don't even have to write `try {alert();}` - instead you can write a shorthand: `alert()`

@iiii forgot the /s