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by flakes 506 days ago
> As an example, with a goroutine you have to be careful to handle all errors, because a panic would take down the whole service.

Unless you're the default `net/http` library and simply recover from the panic: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/server...

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You still need to be careful, as this won't catch panics from go routines launched from your http handler.
Yeah, I'm simplifying a bit. It may not cause an immediate exit, but it can leave the service broken in unpredictable ways. See this discussion for instance: https://iximiuz.com/en/posts/go-http-handlers-panic-and-dead...