[ryandrake]

I think reasonable people can disagree about whether C++ exceptions are "good" or not.

There are things you can't do easily in C++ without using exceptions, like handling errors that happen in a constructor and handling when `new` cannot alloc memory. Plus, a lot of the standard library relies on exceptions. And of course there's the stylistic argument of clearly separating error-handling from the happy-path logic.

I won't argue that it's popular to ban them, though. And often for good reasons.

[canucker2016]

For exception-less C++, you'd declare an operator new() that doesn't throw exceptions and just returns NULL on allocation failure along with a simple constructor and a followup explicitly-called init() method that does the real work which might fail and returns an error value on failure.