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by fwip 490 days ago
For many use cases, blowing up loudly is strongly preferable to silently doing the wrong thing. Especially in the presence of hostile actors, who are trying to use your out -of-bounds error for their own gain.
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For many other use cases it is not. Imagine a smartphone randomly turning itself off. Nobody can possibly debug this.