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I'd disagree with most of that, but the panic in goroutines really hits home. It's so annoying to remember implementing recover in every goroutine started to avoid crashing your application. I don't get why there's no global recover option that can recover from panic's in goroutines as well.

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Goroutines are expected to communicate on channels. If one goroutine simply vanishes, then its counterparties on any channels will deadlock - either waiting for messages that never come, or trying to send messages to it after channel buffers fill up.

Crash is significantly easier to detect and understand than deadlock.

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