# Error Handling in C, Go, Rust, and Google's Absl

DevFeed: [Error Handling in C, Go, Rust, and Google's Absl](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/ow-my-foot-39417.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://n8z.dev/posts/ow-my-foot/>)

Author: Nevin Zheng

Published: 2026-02-28T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [nevzheng](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/nevzheng.md>)

Topics: [Error Handling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/error-handling.md>), [Programming](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/programming.md>), [Embedded Systems](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/embedded-systems.md>), [Microcontroller](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microcontroller.md>), [C](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/c.md>), [Go Language](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/go-language.md>), [Rust](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rust.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>)

Tags: [c](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/c.md>), [embedded](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedded.md>), [embedded-systems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/embedded-systems.md>), [error-handling](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/error-handling.md>), [errors](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/errors.md>), [go](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/go.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [microcontrollers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microcontrollers.md>), [opinions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opinions.md>), [rust](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rust.md>), [stm32](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stm32.md>)

## AI overview

An opinionated survey of error handling across C, Go, Rust, and Google's Absl. The article traces error recovery from hardware status registers, interrupts, watchdog timers, and resets to modern language features and libraries, with particular attention to firmware, embedded systems, and microcontrollers.

## Source excerpt

Errors, opinions, and the rakes I've stepped on.