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> But when a once in a blue moon issue crops up in prod and all other connections are dropped, the fact that a simple defer+recover couldn't have been preemptively placed on their goroutines is a huge nightmare

Yeah, this is one of the weird things, to say it mildly, that Go does that is hardly mentioned anywhere. Most people don't know about it until they themselves first encounter the nightmare bug similar to what you said.

parent beltsazar 3 years ago

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