Propagating upwards a valid way of handling it and often the correct answer.

There needs to be something at the top level that can handle a crashing process.

You mean like kubernetes that restarts your program when it crashes?

can Rust handle global panics?

Or can a unwrap be stopped?

This is just a normal Tuesday for languages with Exception and try/catch.

> This is just a normal Tuesday for languages with Exception and try/catch.

Yes, unfortunately, random stack unrolls and weird state bugs as a result are a normal Tuesday for languages with (unchecked) Exception and try/catch