[ekidd]

Yeah, in anything but heavily multi-threaded servers, it's usually best to immediately crash on a panic. Panics don't mean "a normal error occurred", they mean, "This program is cursed and our fundamental assumptions are wrong." So it's normal for a unit test harness to catch panics. And you may occasionally catch them and kill an entire client connection, sort of the way Erlang handles major failures. But most programs should just exit immediately.