[nox101]

"Exception" has a meaning. Exceptions are supposed to be used for just that, unexpected situations. Not being able to parse something is not an exception. It's a normal thing. RegEx doesn't throw an exception when there's no match. Array.indexOf doesn't throw an exception when it doesn't find a something.

It's really nice to able to go into the debugger and say "stop on all exceptions" and not be spammed with the wrong use of exceptions

And so, it's nice that we'll have `URL.parse`

[valicord]

If you're expecting a string to be a URL, failing to parse it as a URL is indeed an unexpected situation.

[maxbond]

An invalid URL in a config file is exceptional. An invalid URL typed in by a user or from an external source (eg the body of an API request or inside of some HTML) is Tuesday.