[ackfoobar]

> They just released a proposal that effectively side-steps the problem of checked-exceptions-in-lambdas.

The main problem of checked exception in lambdas is that Java's type system does not allow expressing statements like "`forEach` throws whatever the lambda throws". Here are two links:

http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2012/02/checked-exceptions-mig...

https://blog.jooq.org/javas-checked-exceptions-are-just-weir...

The proposed syntax puts the exceptions on equal footing with the happy path. Not a bad idea, but irrelevant to the main problem.