https://blog.cloudflare.com/18-november-2025-outage/
Why does the cloudflare codebase allow for .unwrap() Ideally it should be banned via clippy lints. The entire point of errors as values is that this sort of thing can be handled. They could've just used a match on the result.
It wouldn’t have stopped the outrage but it would’ve made it easier to diagnose and potentially prevent.
#rust #rustlang #cloudflare
Vincent Sgherzi
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2025-11-19 00:10:02 UTC
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