Comment by spacechild1

> They're good for exceptional situations where foundamental, core assumptions are broken for some reason.

No, that's what assertions or contracts are for.

Most exceptions are supposed to be handled. The alternative to exceptions in C++ are error codes and `std::expected::. They are used for errors that are expected to happen (even if they may be exceptional). You just shouldn't use exceptions for control flow. (I'm looking at you, Python :)