Why are they so fixated on the insignificant?

The C++ committee has been busy rewriting the language standard at ever accelerating pace. They want everything changed every few years. New this, new that, unlearn new, by the way, etc.

But they ignore really important stuff: exception handling. This is a gray area that no one in C++ business wants to touch with a 10' pole.

In my recent project I tried every exception-handling method that is known out there: try/catch, try/except, signal handlers - exceptions blow right through all of those methods.

Exception handling has been built into CPUs since time immemorial. It occurs, and the CPU generates an interrupt. Handle that interrupt, sons of bitches! Intercept it! Don't just ignore it in your usual 'anything goes' fashion. No! They are too busy rewriting another operator's specification. As if we are kindergartners whose noses need to be blown and hands held.

And everybody is silent about it! Why are you silent?

While you are, millions of recent students graduate from universities having been indoctrinated in rabid hatred of all things C/C++ and in worshiping shit like Python/Ruby/Go/Rust/Lua and a plethora of other sidekick "languages" that are devised as the next-best-thing to replace C.

End result? We have the dumbest generation of developers out there and have to use dumb products that they roll out. Congratulations!

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