What Happens When a Destructor Throws -- Sandor Dargo

Even experienced C++ developers sometimes stumble on a deceptively simple question: what actually happens when a destructor throws an exception? This post breaks down the mechanics behind stack unwinding, noexcept , and why throwing from destructors is almost always a bad idea What Happens When a Destructor Throws by Sandor Dargo From the article: Recently I wrote about the importance of finding joy in our jobs on The Dev Ladder . Mastery and deep understanding are key elements in finding that joy, especially now that generating code is cheap and increasingly done better by AI than by us.