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wiseowise on Sept 17, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: Swift 6

Checked exceptions are universally seen as a mistake in Java*

* - according to a couple of loudmouths on the internet

dtech on Sept 18, 2024 | [–]

And the designers and the Java stdlib itself, seeing as it's pretty much all runtime exceptions in everything introduced in Java 8 and later

Also JVM guest languages like Kotlin and Scala treat all exceptions like runtime.

yadaeno on Sept 19, 2024 | [–]

Checked exceptions with lambdas are a nightmare from what I remember.

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