Surprised more people don't talk about panics and third party libraries.
So a panic is when something happens that shouldn't and you want the app to just die. But the problem is that third party libraries can do this as well. And there is no way to wrap this behaviour.
For example, I used a PDF library that would panic when the file was doing something not in the spec. And rather than me being able to put up a dialog that said "this PDF is invalid" my entire process would die. Not great for a desktop app.
It is one of the more insane situations I've ever seen in programming in 30+ years. You literally have to beg third party developers to consider what is best for you rather than them.
So a panic is when something happens that shouldn't and you want the app to just die. But the problem is that third party libraries can do this as well. And there is no way to wrap this behaviour.
For example, I used a PDF library that would panic when the file was doing something not in the spec. And rather than me being able to put up a dialog that said "this PDF is invalid" my entire process would die. Not great for a desktop app.
It is one of the more insane situations I've ever seen in programming in 30+ years. You literally have to beg third party developers to consider what is best for you rather than them.