[nemothekid]

>The beauty of exceptions, on the other hand, is that the default option is the safe one

Except, when it's not. Exceptions tend not to solve the problem, only make it subtly worse. The biggest wart on exceptions is the fact it introduces non-local control flow. All of the sudden any function you call can cause you jump out of your current function. In any situation where an unhandled error will corrupt your state, exceptions have that problem as well, on top of the fact that they are invisible.

An `err` aliased to `_` or shadowed can be found by a linter or a human reading the code. A function `foo()` causing your stack to blow up and possible corrupt any IO you are doing is worse. Therefore, the guys in Java-land discovered CheckedExceptions which were even more controversial, and arguably led to languages like Go and Rust dropping exceptions in general.