[couchand]

Woah woah woah let's not get hasty. We can have panicking and nonpanicking versions of the API (at least until somebody builds the nonpanicking version of Rust, that will be great). The panicking version is for quick, off-the-cuff usage, and the nonpanicking one for production use.

There's value in the Hello, World and println-debugging style print, even if it should be eschewed in most general contexts.

[int_19h]

I didn't say that there isn't value in "hello world" or println-debugging style print. The point is that both should go to stderr rather than stdout (and then panic if they fail). But for stdout, which is the channel for output and not for logging, the default should be to require error handling.

Consider something as trivial as `cat foo >readonly_file` to see why.