(Author) Thanks indeed checked exceptions have been brought to my attention in this thread, and in theory they are indeed very similar, except I understand changing the type of a checked exception causes refactoring hell, so they are painful to use in practice.
The other aspect is ergonomics. A major problem I have with try..catch blocks that the article doesn't touch on is that they created nested blocks, with their own scopes. This either results in nesting hell, or the variables that are assigned inside the try block must also be defined outside the try block. This makes the code simply unpleasant to write.
The other aspect is ergonomics. A major problem I have with try..catch blocks that the article doesn't touch on is that they created nested blocks, with their own scopes. This either results in nesting hell, or the variables that are assigned inside the try block must also be defined outside the try block. This makes the code simply unpleasant to write.