Poll: Does your project use terminating assertions in production?

I’m running this poll to gather data, both for myself and for other interested C++ committee members. I’m curious to see what you all report!

Please let us know what your current project is doing, and thank you for participating. The poll will close on Friday night.

\"Production\/release builds\" means the builds you and your users actually run for real, not test builds.
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