That's not particularly novel observation; people have been pointing out the equivalence between checked exceptions and Result types for pretty much forever. Se

That's not particularly novel observation; people have been pointing out the equivalence between checked exceptions and Result types for pretty much forever. See for example this thread from decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545647 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9545647