No, they're not the same concept, they're both ways to express error conditions but they way they function are very different. People very intentionally do not

No, they're not the same concept, they're both ways to express error conditions but they way they function are very different. People very intentionally do not use exceptions because of how they function and the potential impact on performance compared to other ways of error handling. As well as having other negatives, which other people below have listed when you made a similar comment.