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These criticisms of exception handling are primarily based on their implementation in C++; they are not issues inherent in exceptions. Exceptions are clearly more problematic when they are bolted-on after the fact to a language with manual memory management and a large existing body of code that is unaware of them.

But writing exception-safe code IS trivial, in basically any language except C++. Garbage collection is all you need in most cases, and try-with-resources/RAII/etc takes care of closing I/O.

Note that Go still needs defer() to reliably take care of the latter, so it's not clear to me what is gained by the omission (or rather, strong deprecation) of exceptions.