From 3aa654f25401e5d347d852c4a5e09b7dd3476b61 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kirk Waiblinger <53019676+kirkwaiblinger@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 20:44:43 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] remove dead failure path

---
 .../src/create-program/useProvidedPrograms.ts             | 2 +-
 packages/typescript-estree/src/parser.ts                  | 8 +-------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/typescript-estree/src/create-program/useProvidedPrograms.ts b/packages/typescript-estree/src/create-program/useProvidedPrograms.ts
index b8e958ed34f2..cd51c92100d2 100644
--- a/packages/typescript-estree/src/create-program/useProvidedPrograms.ts
+++ b/packages/typescript-estree/src/create-program/useProvidedPrograms.ts
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const log = debug(
 export function useProvidedPrograms(
   programInstances: Iterable<ts.Program>,
   parseSettings: ParseSettings,
-): ASTAndDefiniteProgram | undefined {
+): ASTAndDefiniteProgram {
   log(
     'Retrieving ast for %s from provided program instance(s)',
     parseSettings.filePath,
diff --git a/packages/typescript-estree/src/parser.ts b/packages/typescript-estree/src/parser.ts
index 1c0c6e42aa83..2841d1b1bc39 100644
--- a/packages/typescript-estree/src/parser.ts
+++ b/packages/typescript-estree/src/parser.ts
@@ -68,13 +68,7 @@ function getProgramAndAST(
   }
 
   if (parseSettings.programs) {
-    const fromProvidedPrograms = useProvidedPrograms(
-      parseSettings.programs,
-      parseSettings,
-    );
-    if (fromProvidedPrograms) {
-      return fromProvidedPrograms;
-    }
+    return useProvidedPrograms(parseSettings.programs, parseSettings);
   }
 
   // no need to waste time creating a program as the caller didn't want parser services