Exceptions have their uses, including in system programming. There’s in fact nothing about system programming which makes a particular error handling method bet

Exceptions have their uses, including in system programming. There’s in fact nothing about system programming which makes a particular error handling method better or worse. These are the kind of minor points some programmers like to fixate on and then sell as the one true way of doing X, while providing no proof and asking everyone to trust them, because it worked great in a project once for the comment author. Not letting exceptions escape at API boundaries has been a technique for a few decades. It’s not rocket science. Writing exception-safe code is likewise an ancient technique by now. Meyers’ books which explained such things were published in the 90s…