> Exceptions are ways to crash the program in a controlled manner with the ability for these crashes to be caught midway before the program crashes and handled

> Exceptions are ways to crash the program in a controlled manner with the ability for these crashes to be caught midway before the program crashes and handled correctly. > In rust you can only crash it explicitly using the panic! Macro. No handling. You can catch Rust panics with `catch_unwind()` if you compiled your program with `-Cpanic=unwind` (default on most platforms). Under the hood it uses stack unwinding, just like C++ and co's exceptions. But Rust doesn't consider this idiomatic error handling, it's only used in a few special situations (test frameworks, web servers where one buggy session shouldn't take down the process...).