With exceptions, I can trivially pass error information through my whole call stack without any manual work and boilerplate. The whole syntax clutter / OMG-but-

With exceptions, I can trivially pass error information through my whole call stack without any manual work and boilerplate. The whole syntax clutter / OMG-but-try-catch-is-so-ugly is a very stupid argument: with exceptions, you can opt out of local error handling and opt-in at a higher level in the call stack without losing any information. With return code / error codes, this is just not possible. So exceptions declutter application code to a high degree. Exceptions are to error codes as functions are to goto: there are valid cases where you want to prefer the latter, but they are few and far between.