did rust take down the internet?

Cloudflare experienced a major outage caused by a Rust code issue involving the unwrap() function. When their bot management system received a configuration file exceeding the hardcoded 200-feature limit, the unwrap() call panicked and crashed services. The incident sparked debate about Rust's error handling semantics, particularly whether unwrap() should be renamed to better convey its panic behavior. The root cause was improper error handling in production code rather than a fundamental language flaw.