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		hu3 8 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem can Rust handle global panics? Or can a unwrap be stopped? This is just a normal Tuesday for languages with Exception and try/catch.

frumplestlatz 7 days ago [–]

> 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

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