There is a way to write programs in Rust that would make panics 99% less likely, namely using functions that return Result<T> and not using functions that can panic – this is very similar to Elixir APIs that return :ok / :error tuples vs. those whose names end with ! and can raise an exception. I don’t have huge production Rust experience but practically every Rust dev I was working with was following the practice of matching on returned errors.
Speaking of those “ton of other things”, we must be realistic that most programming languages and runtimes can’t recover from an out-of-memory condition or a kernel error so I don’t think that’s a fair criticism to Rust – or any other language. Operating under the assumption that you do in fact have some free memory and your physical devices aren’t bombarding the kernel with fatal errors is reasonable.
Answering @amnu3387 here, I believe that what you are looking for here is a close tie between Rust and Zig. The answer is 99% in the “pick your poison” territory. Haskell could work too if that’s your jam.
