Just to be clear from the very beginning: This is not going to be a Torvalds-ish rant against C++ from the point of view of die-hard C programmer.I've been using C++ whole my professional career and it's still my language of choice when doing most projects.Now, almost 5 years later, I would like to publicly admit that using C++ was a poor choice and explain why I believe it is so.First, it's important to take into account that ZeroMQ was intended to be a piece of infrastructure with continuous uptime. It should never fail and never exhibit undefined behaviour. Thus, the error handling was of utmost importance. It had to be very explicit and unforgiving.