It often depends on what software you are writing. Writing a web service? Sure, you can kill the process. You only affect that 1 request and the user can retry

It often depends on what software you are writing. Writing a web service? Sure, you can kill the process. You only affect that 1 request and the user can retry and other users are unaffected. Writing a server that maintains state for multiple realtime clients? Or a user facing program? If an error can be safely constrained, it can be preferable to log the error but keep the application running.