[Zambyte]

I'm not as familiar with the Rust ecosystem, but I know it is used all the time in Go. For example, the standard http server library wraps user provided endpoint handler functions with panic handlers.

[dhruvrajvanshi]

I suppose it's a matter of perspective but I don't see returning a 500 as "Recovering from the error". The user's request has still failed. It just hasn't taken down the server. IMO this is still fine.

[Zambyte]

It is quite literally using the "recover" function in go, so I think it's accurate to call it "recovering".

> this is fine

I didn't mention the merit, just that it is exception style control flow.

[Zambyte]

Reading my top level comment again, I realized I did refer to the Zig way as "nice" relative to the exception style control flow.

[nicoburns]

Is that used for application-level errors though? Rust web servers do that too, but it is used a fallback to avoid bringing down the whole server due to an unexpected crash. It is not a mechanism you would use intentionally.

[Zambyte]

Probably not. I have never used panic / recover in application code at least.

[9rx]

encoding/json uses uses exception handlers for control flow.