Well... Java's "Checked Exceptions" are fundamentally a great feature, held back by a lack of syntactic-sugar and and negative reactions from lazy coders who di

Well... Java's "Checked Exceptions" are fundamentally a great feature, held back by a lack of syntactic-sugar and and negative reactions from lazy coders who didn't like it when the compiler told them they needed to think about error handling. More languages should offer the same kind of feature.