Rest In Peace, Throw: TypeScript error handling 22x faster in just 1.6KB

In TypeScript, we’ve been told that try/catch is the standard for error handling. But there’s a catch: native exceptions are essentially invisible GOTO statements that jump over layers of your application, making it incredibly hard to reason about state. Even worse, because JavaScript allows you to throw anything (from strings to dates), TypeScript is forced to treat every caught error as unknown . This creates a type-erasure effect where your function's failure states become invisible to the co