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App-level Developer on std::error Exceptions Proposal for C++. Part II. The Discussion.

by "No Bugs" Hare

From the article:

For quite a long while, in certain parts of C++ community, there is a substantial resistance to existing C++ exceptions; this leads to an alternative subculture of using error codes instead of exceptions, so there are effectively two barely-compatible C++ worlds: world-using-exceptions, and world-using-error-codes...