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Re:Making Rust binaries smaller by default by vacuity on Wednesday January 24, 2024 @01:08PM (#39120606)
Naively, what is the difference between panics and exceptions? Is it the philosophy on when/how to use them?
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Re:Making Rust binaries smaller by default by IshKebab on Thursday January 25, 2024 @11:57AM (#39131719)
Yes, and also exceptions can have arbitrary value associated with them. You aren't going to get far using panics as a general error handling mechanism because there's only one type of panic.
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