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To the credit of the die-hard Java community, you all really seem to love and support even the most horrific syntax and awful language features. You love the pa

• bottlepalm 3y ago
  Agreed, checked exceptions are awful. The idealists love them, the realest knows you can't write code up front handle every single exception case, and in most cases you aren't recovering from an exception anyways. Especially the higher the level the code is the more potential lower layers that can fail. It's just not scalable to write code up front to deal with every single case. And most programmers don't care about failure, or working around it, just success. On the other hand we do expect the unexpected and wrap failure prone code in try/catch so that we can log exceptions and keep the app moving. Figure out later if the ROI is there from enough failures to write special code to try to prevent and/or recover from a particular exception. It's pretty much the same as it is in the checked exception world just with more code - in Java people handle the exception, log it and/or rethrow, so what's the point? Idealism and poor assumptions by the language designer. Anyone have any proof that a Java app is more reliable than a C# one?