Comment by Defletter

Checked exceptions are not the problem. In fact, I don't think there should be ANY unchecked exceptions outside of OOM and other JVM exceptions. I will die on this hill. The actual problem is that handling exceptions in Java is obnoxious and verbose. I cannot stress enough how bad it feels going from Zig back to Java, error-handling wise. If Java had Zig-style inline catching, there wouldn't nearly be as much humming and hawing over checked exceptions.