Interestingly you bring checked exceptions, i used to dislike them at the past but in recent years i came to appreciate having a visible flow of execution (and

Interestingly you bring checked exceptions, i used to dislike them at the past but in recent years i came to appreciate having a visible flow of execution (and as such i prefer the C approach of explicit returns - note that i haven't used Go at all, i'm just curious about it) which made me think that Java forcing you to acknowledge any exception that may pass through and actively make a decision about it (handle it or explicitly pass it through) is a good thing. Though it also made me dislike its decision for runtime exceptions since they essentially bypass the checking (on the other hand they'd somehow had to handle things like NullPointerException, otherwise everything would need to declare that it would throw it - though perhaps that is a side effect of Java having nullable pointers and a different language without nullable pointers wouldn't need that... but that'd only fix the NullPointerException case).