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Comment by demurgos

Rust's panics are recoverable, so they're more like exceptions. This means that you may need to care about "unwind" safety and values in a potentially invalid state. It's the main reason for mutex poisoning and having to deal with it when locking.

Overall, I'm not entirely sure if Rust would be better or not if panics were non-recoverable.

PS: For completeness, there are flags to control the panic behavior; but you can't rely on them when writing a lib.

parent demurgos 1 year ago

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