I'm not sure about fundamentally broken, but back when I was deeply entrenched in C++ it was clear that it is diabolically hard to write C++ code that behaves c

I'm not sure about fundamentally broken, but back when I was deeply entrenched in C++ it was clear that it is diabolically hard to write C++ code that behaves correctly in the face of all the places and times exceptions may be thrown. There are zillions of corner cases - things like handling of exceptions thrown from destructors (remember, destructors get called implicitly as C++ unwinds the stack, possibly due to ... another exception) that get so complex and weird it is barely possible to understand, let alone correctly code for them.