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But be careful about picking up Googlisms.

Google's allergy to exceptions pollutes their designs. Any class with default constructor, Init, and Deinit is badly polluted.

I have worked on many C++ codebases and none of them used exceptions pervasively. It works fine and I don't miss surprise return values.

Why though? Realtime systems, games would love to disable exceptions.

I code realtime systems with submicrosecond deadlines. And exceptions.

It is necessary to know what you are doing.

Exceptions are much more needed than the current counterhype makes it appear.