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characterizing people who think checked exceptions as either bad programmers or unable to have their own opinion on the matter does not do a great service to yo

• ragnese 2y ago
  Yeah, that whole statement there is probably unnecessary and I can see it being off-putting. I'll edit it if I still can. However, I just want to make it clear that I wasn't intending to call anyone a "bad programmer". At least not in a personally insulting way. We've all been in a position where we were uninitiated at something. And most of us have been in a situation where we've jumped into a new programming language without having any kind of "formal" education on the design, philosophy, and intended best practices. For example, with Java, one should read documents like: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/index.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions..., especially this part: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions/runtime.html https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/essential/exceptions.... So, again, that part wasn't actually meant as an insult. We're all uneducated about many things at every point in our lives. And I think that lack of education or guidance on designing error types and handling has caused a lot of people to end up burying themselves in checked exception hell, and dismissing the whole thing because of that frustration. The other part about cargo-culting... well, yeah, that was me insulting people.