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Go: panic vs os.Exit #go #guides

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panic signals "the programmer has made a fundamental mistake and execution cannot continue safely", whereas os.Exit signals "the programmer has decided that the process should terminate here" — different meanings. Also, important difference in behavior: panic will unwind the callstack, which means it will call any pending defer statements; os.Exit will just do a hard kill, so it won't.