What is Environment.FailFast?

Question

What is Environment.FailFast?

How is it useful?

Answer 1

Joe Duffy discusses failing fast and the discipline to make it useful, here.

http://joeduffyblog.com/2014/10/13/if-youre-going-to-fail-do-it-fast/

Essentially, he's saying that for programming bugs - i.e. unexpected errors that are the fault of the programmer and not the programme user or other inputs or situations that can be reasonable expected to be bad - then deciding to always fail fast for unexpected errors has been seen to improve code quality.

I think since its an optional team decision and discipline, use of this API in C# is rare since in reality we're all mostly writing LoB apps for 12 people in HR or an online shop at best.

So for us, we'd maybe use this when we want deny the consumer of our API the opportunity of making any further moves.