No. People that care about catching OOM failures will simply have to use other crates that have a more complex API, but that's what they want I was just sayin

No. People that care about catching OOM failures will simply have to use other crates that have a more complex API, but that's what they want I was just saying it is a right choice in the alloc crate, which is meant for user space programs, to simply panic on case of OOM, because otherwise the API would be more complex for everyone.