Panics

Rust handles fatal errors with a “panic”.

Rust will trigger a panic if a fatal error happens at runtime:

fn main() {
    let v = vec![10, 20, 30];
    println!("v[100]: {}", v[100]);
}

• Panics are for unrecoverable and unexpected errors.
  • Panics are symptoms of bugs in the program.
  • Runtime failures like failed bounds checks can panic
  • Assertions (such as assert!) panic on failure
  • Purpose-specific panics can use the panic! macro.
• A panic will “unwind” the stack, dropping values just as if the functions had returned.
• Use non-panicking APIs (such as Vec::get) if crashing is not acceptable.

use std::panic;

fn main() {
    let result = panic::catch_unwind(|| {
        "No problem here!"
    });
    println!("{result:?}");

    let result = panic::catch_unwind(|| {
        panic!("oh no!");
    });
    println!("{result:?}");
}