Just to quickly note here: Certain very popular game console does not allow use of C++ exceptions - the underlying runtime / abi / whatever simply does not supp

Just to quickly note here: Certain very popular game console does not allow use of C++ exceptions - the underlying runtime / abi / whatever simply does not support it. Not that you would ship ZeroMQ code in it (it's GPL), but still. Oh, and I love ZeroMQ, and I even love it more, that the "C" interface was the one being public, not the "C++". Also good article. I love exceptions in higher-level languages - lisp, lua, etc. - but I prefer error codes in lower-level ones, and I consider C++ as such.