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by int_19h 469 days ago
That's a cultural thing (and a good one, too).

The one big difference tho is that in Rust, the end user of the library - i.e. the person compiling the binary of which this library is a part - can decide at that point whether panics unwind like C++ exceptions, or just abort immediately. Conversely, this means that the library should never assume that it can catch panics, even its own internal ones, because it may be compiled with panic=abort.

So it's kinda like C++ exceptions, but libraries can only throw, never catch.