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The problem with goroutines is that an unhandled crash can cause a shutdown, and if the goroutine is started by a badly-written library with no proper recovery

by kimi 7y ago

The problem with goroutines is that an unhandled crash can cause a shutdown, and if the goroutine is started by a badly-written library with no proper recovery, you are dead.

sagichmal 7y ago
But that's good, right? As a rule, panics should terminate your program.
- kimi 7y ago
  Maybe you should choose, or be aware of it. I have seen it happen on network code, that is by definition unreliable.....
  - sagichmal 7y ago
    Yeah, bad libraries exist :(
Thaxll 7y ago
Panic don't shutdown the entire program, only panics on the main goroutine. If your HTTP servers panics it will just kill the goroutine handling the request.