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Re:“Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of ... by fritolaid on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:27AM (#33056731)
Unless it was holding a welding gun and stopped on one spot with the welding flame turned on instead of gracefully turning off the flame and backing away.

Never used Rust before but is there a way to supply some default code to run in such a situation instead of just not carrying out the bad operation?

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Re:“Rust is safe” is not some kind of absolute guarantee of ... by shepherdjerred on Sunday October 02, 2022 @11:41AM (#33056886)
Yes, you can define your own panic handler in Rust.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/nomicon/panic-handler.html

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