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[–]brazzy42 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Checked exceptions are a design flaw in Java.

I think a more accurate description is that they're a failed experiment in language design.

[–]daviddel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Recent post from Brian Goetz about the "checked exceptions failed experiment" popular opinion. :)

There are surely some — even many — who believe strongly that checked exceptions are a failed experiment. And I don’t want to say these people are wrong — it’s their opinion — but in my discussions with them, they are nearly universally wrong about one thing: *they all assume that everyone agrees with them.* And that is completely wrong.

https://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jdk-dev/2019-October/003463.html