[joeshaw]

In net/http, if a handler panics you don't want it to bring down your entire application. For more info, see https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/#Handler

The encoding/json package is interesting because it uses both panic() and recover() internally in a way more reminiscent to how exceptions are used in other languages (that is, for control flow).

For example, https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2596a0c075aeddec571cd658f7... panics, and https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2596a0c075aeddec571cd658f7... recovers it.

Both uses are quite uncommon, though.

[baby]

interesting! Yeah this is definitely changing my idea of how panic should be used.