I think exceptions are bad not because of the principle but because code is written by humans. We use Go in our company and every intern learning it complains about the error handling at first. Then they write a bunch of programs and those basically never crash. I had and intern write a somewhat complex service mangling large amounts of Geodata which was his first go service ever. That thing ran for years without cra…
That makes me think about reading djb's c code. He zealously checks return values. Even from printf.