I ended up making an account for this one. Exceptions are a section in one of my favourite blog entries: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-

I ended up making an account for this one. Exceptions are a section in one of my favourite blog entries: http://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-features/ http://blog.ploeh.dk/2015/04/13/less-is-more-language-featur... Their argument is that Exceptions are GOTOs in disguise and point to the use of sum types. I have found this to be good advice when using Java 8+. Composing Optional<?>, Either<?, Exception>, or CompletableFuture<?> has provided sufficient tooling for handling failure scenarios. I also find that Exceptions slow down my reasoning about code, because they are side effects - see functional programming.