Greenwashing

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling]

On Wednesday, 27 May 2020 at 23:57:00 UTC, Meta wrote:
> What's wrong with nothrow by default? Probably 97% of code 
> doesn't need to throw exceptions.

One point of view can be to consider the consequences of fixing 
code that incorrectly uses the default.

If we have throws-by-default, then marking an existing 
non-templated method `@nothrow` is not a breaking change.

If we have nothrow-by-default, then marking an existing 
non-templated method `@throws` is a breaking change.

Another point of view could be that there's a benefit to being 
permissive by default in terms of what the developer can do.