unwrap: a flaw in Rust's stdlib design?
The postmortem of the recent Cloudflare outage revealed that the code path that ultimately failed during the outage made an unwrap call that resulted in an unhandled panic. If you visit Twitter, you'll see many people jumping to blame Rust for the entire outage. This isn't correct: the outage would have happened regardless (the fundamental, root cause was the Bot Management file generation system…