There are two kinds of exceptions: (1) those that can (and should) be handled in a meaningful way, and (2) those there's no way to handle and you should just cr

There are two kinds of exceptions: (1) those that can (and should) be handled in a meaningful way, and (2) those there's no way to handle and you should just crash. A big part of the reason people hate checked exceptions is that actually doing #1 correctly is really damn hard. It's a whole separate dimension of complexity that your design needs to tackle. A compiler that checks exceptions forces you to do it. Abruptly, if you're new to the language. It flips the floodlights on at full brightness and makes you see the full scope of the problem. It's tempting to shoot the messenger.