>Having them in your toolbox is certainly an advantage over having no choice I disagree. Dependencies, or coworkers, will use them despite your decision not to

>Having them in your toolbox is certainly an advantage over having no choice I disagree. Dependencies, or coworkers, will use them despite your decision not to use them. When a dependency does use them, chances are the documentation is poor or non-existent. "Recover no matter what" doesn't require exceptions. A common C idiom is to call a function like f(input, *err), where err points to memory where f can write error diagnostic info. Clunky, but I like how it makes the "exceptions" somewhat self-documented in the function signature.