Well, panics should not be used for recoverable error handing in Rust. There's no guarantee turning off panics in favor of aborts wont break the assumptions of

Well, panics should not be used for recoverable error handing in Rust. There's no guarantee turning off panics in favor of aborts wont break the assumptions of some library. That library should probably break tho, since as you said, panics aren't meant to emulate application logic exceptions. use std::panic::catch_unwind; fn main() { let err = catch_unwind(|| { panic!("B") }); println!("Look ma, recoverable error handing! {:?}", err); }