At least I'm not the only one disappointed in Rust's error handling strategy. I still firmly believe that exceptions are the best error handling strategy we've concocted so far and that Rust (and Go) represent a big step backwards in language design in this respect. It's still hard to get over Rust's default abort-on-OOM behavior that arises from the awkwardness that would arise from surfacing the possibility of allocation failure from every part of stdlib.

> the catch block

"The" catch block? For each function? Some people misunderstand exceptions and think that every function needs a catch block that cleans up resources allocated in that function. I hope you're not one of these people.

Idiomatic exceptional code has very few catch blocks. That's part of the appeal.