--- title: There Is No Such Thing as an Edge Case. Or is there? description: An opinion piece argues that the term 'edge case' is often misused to dismiss states software should actually handle. The core claim is that rarity isn't what... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-edge-case-or-is-there--gm6qhmqnc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: There Is No Such Thing as an Edge Case. Or is there? | daily.dev og:description: An opinion piece argues that the term 'edge case' is often misused to dismiss states software should actually handle. The core claim is that rarity isn't what... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-edge-case-or-is-there--gm6qhmqnc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gm6QHMQnc.png og:image:alt: There Is No Such Thing as an Edge Case. Or is there? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # There Is No Such Thing as an Edge Case. Or is there? **[Byte Corner](https://daily.dev/sources/bytecorner)** · [@mbos](https://daily.dev/mbos) · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An opinion piece argues that the term 'edge case' is often misused to dismiss states software should actually handle. The core claim is that rarity isn't what matters — what matters is whether a given state is one the system is supposed to handle. Many so-called edge cases are really unstated assumptions that were never explicitly decided on, and treating them as rare exceptions lets teams avoid confronting design gaps. ## Content "That's just an edge case." Maybe. But how unusual something is isn't really the important question. The better question is: Is this a state our software is supposed to handle? If the answer is yes, it's part of the problem — regardless of how rarely it happens. A lot of "edge cases" are really just assumptions that nobody has turned into explicit decisions yet. [👉 Read More about it here 👈](https://bytecorner.dev/articles/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-edge-case) `#software-development` `#programming` `#debugging` `#engineering` `#web-development` ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [How top software houses handle the work that really matters](https://daily.dev/posts/how-top-software-houses-handle-the-work-that-really-matters-muplyicvz) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-edge-case-or-is-there--gm6qhmqnc) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/there-is-no-such-thing-as-an-edge-case-or-is-there--gm6qhmqnc","headline":"There Is No Such Thing as an Edge Case. 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