I agree. Checked exceptions are just a worse version of Result types. I did not intend to make them sound better than they are. Unchecked exceptions, however

I agree. Checked exceptions are just a worse version of Result types. I did not intend to make them sound better than they are. Unchecked exceptions, however, are a different beast entirely. They're not just checked exceptions without the checking; they fundamentally change how you code and how you think about error handling.