tired of not having exit(code), ER proposed

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 29 September 2014 at 02:30:16 UTC, ketmar via 
Digitalmars-d wrote:
> Hello.
>
> i'm really got tired of writing try/catch boilerplate in main() 
> just to
> be able to exit from some inner function, setup exitcode and 
> suppress
> stack trace. so i wrote this small ER:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13554
>
> it adds ExitError to core.exception. when runtime catches it, 
> runtime
> will set error code and exit silently instead of printing error 
> message
> and stack trace. so now you can avoid wrapping your main in 
> boilerplate
> try/catch and easily exit from anywhere just by throwing 
> ExitError.
>
> sure you still can catch ExitError in your main(), do some 
> cleanup and
> rethrow it if you want to.
>
> it's simple, it's easy, it's handy.
>
> happy hacking.

What is the benefit of using it over plain C `exit`? Do you rely 
on destructors being called upon program termination?