[lolinder]

Checked exceptions are an unfortunate case of a feature being rolled out in a language that wasn't ready to support it ergonomically and then becoming a pariah because of how bad the experience was in that language. There's nothing wrong with the concept—checked exceptions are conceptually the same as every function returning a Result type—but without type inference and without some ergonomics like Rust's ? operator they're really hard to work with and so people grew to hate them.

I personally believe that it is now within reach for Java to fix checked exceptions to be ergonomic and useful. If they do it, Java could have one of the best error handling paradigms out of any modern language, but I suspect it won't happen because the community has come to land so firmly against checked exceptions.

[lenkite]

Making big feature and possibly breaking changes such as making checked exceptions ergonomic would only be possible if the original language designer - James Gosling decided to dust his sleeves, un-retire himself and lead the job. Now, its a distant pipe dream.