[von_lohengramm]

> the program is no good for me dead

That may be true, but the program may actually be bad for you if it does something unexpected due to an unforeseen state.

[pdimitar]

Agreed, that's why I don't catch panics either -- if we get to that point I'm viewing the program as corrupted. I'm simply saying that I do my utmost to never use potentially panicking Rust API and prefer to add boilerplate for `Err` branching.