Nonsense. Linux kernel for one example, uses goto everywhere for error handling. | Hacker News

Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit

		tucnak 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem Nonsense. Linux kernel for one example, uses goto everywhere for error handling.

gishh 20 days ago [–]

How many codebases besides the Linux kernel had you seen an intentional amount of use of goto?

orphea 18 days ago | [–]

The answer is one search away on GitHub.

I will give you one example though: various .NET repositories (runtime, aspnetcore, orleans).

Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact