There was an interesting talk about C++ exceptions in smaller firmware at CppCon last year: https://youtu.be/bY2FlayomlE https://youtu.be/bY2FlayomlE Basically

There was an interesting talk about C++ exceptions in smaller firmware at CppCon last year: https://youtu.be/bY2FlayomlE https://youtu.be/bY2FlayomlE Basically, the overhead of exceptions is probably less than handling the same errors manually in any non-trivial program. Also, it's not like these table doesn't exist in other languages. Both Rust and Go have to unwind.