Throwing Everything

Dart's error handling is... let's say "flexible." While most languages force you to throw proper Exception objects, Dart just shrugs and lets you throw literally anything—strings, numbers, your lunch order, whatever. The documentation casually mentions "you can also throw arbitrary objects" like it's a totally normal feature and not an invitation to chaos.

The example throw 'Out of llamas!'; is peak Dart energy—throwing a string error message like we're back in the wild west of programming. Meanwhile, Dart developers are out here yeeting random objects into the error stream with zero regard for type safety or sanity. Need to throw an int? Sure. A Map? Why not. A function? Go for it. The catch blocks must be having existential crises trying to figure out what they're catching.

It's the programming equivalent of "throw whatever sticks to the wall" except the wall is your production error handler and nothing sticks properly.