You're not alone. The Google coding standard bans exceptions in C++. Firefox, V8, and a lot of other pieces of C++ software are also written without exception

You're not alone. The Google coding standard bans exceptions in C++. Firefox, V8, and a lot of other pieces of C++ software are also written without exceptions. It's particularly telling that the guys who wrote the LLVM compiler, who presumably know more about the dark corners of C++ than anyone, chose to ban exceptions in their code.