> Rust made the same call.

Completely different. In Rust when you spawn a thread [1] or an async task [2], you'll get a handle from which you can check if a panic happens inside the thread/task. Even if you ignore the handle, a panic inside a thread/task won't crash the entire program.

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[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/fn.spawn.html

[2] https://docs.rs/tokio/latest/tokio/task/fn.spawn.html