> `panic` is not for business logic. Neither are 500 responses. A perfect HTTP server never responds 500 and there aren't any situations I've ever encountered

> `panic` is not for business logic. Neither are 500 responses. A perfect HTTP server never responds 500 and there aren't any situations I've ever encountered where there's any valuable error recovery or business logic left to be done once the server has run into a 500-worthy issue. IIRC, the HTTP server in the Go standard library recovers panics and issues 500 responses, which is what I would expect it to do.