Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to justify

Re:Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to jus... by ModernMech on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:08PM (#30432159)

That's not my point. The point is that this feature once was the hot new thing, and in the future there will be a hot new way to do the same thing in addition to all the old ways, because that's how C++ evolves.

And I would have to say the average C++ dev did not know about RAII in 1993.

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Re:Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to jus... by ncmncm on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:22PM (#30432335)

Destructors have been in C++ since the mid-80s. Anybody who did not know about RAII in 1993 did not know any C++.

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Re:Current hardware trends make C++ exceptions harder to jus... by KerrAvon on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @02:20PM (#30432305)

For the sake of pedantry only: I don't think we called it RAII in 1993-1996, but the technique was in use in that period, though it wasn't standardized in any way. IIRC, Mac developers would have been widely exposed to it by Metrowerks PowerPlant during that time.

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