"Seriously the best thing is throwing an exception on the bug path too. If it's truly a bug, then it shouldn't be handled and you get what you just described."

"Seriously the best thing is throwing an exception on the bug path too. If it's truly a bug, then it shouldn't be handled and you get what you just described." Except that you don't get a call stack (and process state), which is like the best feature of a core dump. Just open it in your debugger and you're immediately looking at a whole lot of more of information about what happened than what an exception can tell you.