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by Avernar 3700 days ago
Restarting quickly into a known state is not crashing. That is handling the error. How much of the program you restart is the question. Restart just a thread is better than restarting the whole program.

But their app crashed. And hard. It required a machine reboot to restart. While it returned the machine to a known state it wasn't quick.

And in medical software, all code paths need to be tested.