I think i agree with commenters that article kind-of uses exceptions wrong.
But this shows problems with C++ exceptions, C++ codebases are literred with bad exception usage because "normal" programmers don't get it. Most of didn't get it for long time. So, they are complex enough that their usage is risk.
Anyway, IMO C++ exceptions have two fundametal problems:
* lack of stacktrace, so actually lack of _debugabbility_, that's why people try/catch everything
* destructor problem (that actually there are exceptions tht cannot be propagated further and are lost
But this shows problems with C++ exceptions, C++ codebases are literred with bad exception usage because "normal" programmers don't get it. Most of didn't get it for long time. So, they are complex enough that their usage is risk.
Anyway, IMO C++ exceptions have two fundametal problems:
* lack of stacktrace, so actually lack of _debugabbility_, that's why people try/catch everything
* destructor problem (that actually there are exceptions tht cannot be propagated further and are lost