I think the syntactic awkwardness in general in Java have been a huge issue and it's a shame because people hold it against checked exceptions rather than the l

I think the syntactic awkwardness in general in Java have been a huge issue and it's a shame because people hold it against checked exceptions rather than the language. For example, it took forever to be able to handle two unrelated exceptions with the same catch block, and incredibly common things like closing file handles would require nested try / catch blocks in all the primary catch clauses (and now every utility library ends up with "closeQuietly" or similar ...). I think if Java had done it much better there would be a massively different opinion of CE.