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I also believe people throw way too many exceptions. You should be able to be explicit about the outcome of an error case, and not just throw exceptions in a panic.

So alongside swallowed exceptions is throwing exceptions in scenarios that were entirely recoverable, and I think in both scenarios devs just don't understand their program enough and are choosing to panic, or ignore the problem.

I think people often throw exceptions rather than write the code that handles the situation more gracefully. If you knew it could happen, then is it really an exceptional circumstance?