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The PROBLEM With Error Handling in Typescript (and how to fix it) | Ethan Niser YouTube Video Summary

In this video, Ethan Niser explains the limitations of error handling within Typescript, noting that while Typescript empowers code, it faces challenges in ensuring type safety, particularly in error handling due to Javascript's flexible exception throwing. While exceptions in Javascript have merit for removing the need to handle errors by default, they often lead to program crashes. Ethan explores how the distinction between expected and unexpected errors impacts error management, and explores using the 'Effect' library for Typescript to solve these issue.