I have worked on big projects with up to ~100 developers. On the C projects, someone's null-pointer dereference brings down the whole process. On the Java projects, the event handler or daemon thread has an exception handler at the top that logs the error and keeps executing. This is a huge difference in behavior.
Sometimes, you want to fail fast and be forced to fix that bug. More often, I want to keep doing whatever I can to test and develop the system and find more bugs without restarting the whole thing.
