alt Hacker NewsIf you forget to handle a C++ exception you get a clean crash. If you forget to handle a C error return you get undefined behavior and probably an exploit.
Exceptions are more robust, not less.
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nomel • yesterday at 11:10 PM
Yeap. forgetting to propagate or handle an error provided in a return value is very very easy. If you fail to handle an exception, you halt.
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You should compare exceptions to Result-style tagged unions in a language with exhaustiveness checks, like Rust. Not to return codes in C, lmao.
Everyone (except Go devs) knows that those are the worst. Exceptions are better, but still less reliable than Result.
https://home.expurple.me/posts/rust-solves-the-issues-with-e...