Exceptions indicate //exceptional conditions//, i.e. conditions other than the intended state transitions of the program. They aren't a guard against crashing, they are a mechanism for formalizing error states in the program.
Memory corruption? Appropriate response: fail. Logic error? Appropriate response: fail. Exception? Appropriate response? Decide if program can continue, respond.
I'd say the bigger issue is less of "exceptions" so much as "states". Adding any kind of error handling increases the number of state conditions that your program may be in, and that complexity is obscenely hard to manage. I don't think C or C++ or Java or Erlang or any other language will free you from the burden of proper software engineering.
Memory corruption? Appropriate response: fail. Logic error? Appropriate response: fail. Exception? Appropriate response? Decide if program can continue, respond.
I'd say the bigger issue is less of "exceptions" so much as "states". Adding any kind of error handling increases the number of state conditions that your program may be in, and that complexity is obscenely hard to manage. I don't think C or C++ or Java or Erlang or any other language will free you from the burden of proper software engineering.