>If the profession ever wants to produce anything reliable in C++
This has already been done, so you are obviously wrong.
Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you have zillions of functions just waiting to explode your call stack in ways you could never expect.
Documentation doesn't fix it either. Even if you could somehow guarantee that every single function has detailed descriptions of its possible throws, you won't get devs to read all the documentation for every function in some piece of code that needs a small fix.
This has already been done, so you are obviously wrong.
Exceptions are cute for small amounts of code. But as soon as you get a sizeable codebase, you have zillions of functions just waiting to explode your call stack in ways you could never expect.
Documentation doesn't fix it either. Even if you could somehow guarantee that every single function has detailed descriptions of its possible throws, you won't get devs to read all the documentation for every function in some piece of code that needs a small fix.