- cross-posted to:
- cpp@programming.dev
- cross-posted to:
- cpp@programming.dev
Using exceptions in C++ desktop and server applications overall made sense to me. As I expanded my usage of C++ into other domains, specifically embedded domains, I began to experience more compelling reasons not to use exceptions first-hand…
From lobste.rs
At a library level, couldn’t you have an opaque sum type where the only thing you can do with it is call a
match
method that requires a function pointer for each possible variant of the sum type? It’d be pretty cursed to use but at least it wouldn’t require compiler plugins.