[duaneb]

Well, as I said earlier, stack unwinding does not imply that the stack unwinding is NORMAL; I'm fine with it in exceptional cases.

Defer has its own quirks that irritate me but I wouldn't call them exceptional so much as dynamic RAII.... or something.

Either way, if the languages allow me to avoid tracking down every possible http connection exception I need to trap to avoid bringing down my process I'd say it's a net win.