You can also choose to stop playing the game and wrap any checked Exception in an unchecked RuntimeException. Or, if you use Lombok, you can apply the @SneakyTh

You can also choose to stop playing the game and wrap any checked Exception in an unchecked RuntimeException. Or, if you use Lombok, you can apply the @SneakyThrows annotation to quiet the compiler. As the idea that checked exceptions were a design mistake gains mindshare, you see these tricks more and more in newer codebases.