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		wrs 25 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem And it's fine for a compiler to panic when it violates an assumption. Not so with the Cloudflare code under discussion.

echelon 25 days ago [–]

Idiomatic Rust would have been to return a Result<> to the caller, not to surprise them with a panic.

The developer was lazy.

A lot of Rust developers are: https://github.com/search?q=unwrap%28%29+language%3ARust&typ...

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