Fair point, just differing levels of hoops to jump through, or general expectations of best practice. In that sense I would say Java and C# do not allow you to

Fair point, just differing levels of hoops to jump through, or general expectations of best practice. In that sense I would say Java and C# do not allow you to 'ignore' exceptions. I suspect your "pray" == monitor closely and fix fast (often never). I agree it can be problematic that there is nothing in the language that indicates that the author is explicitly in 'pray' mode. It could well be that even a brief defence of a missing error check during a PR code review is not worth avoiding (un-triggered) err handling.