Anti checked exception sentiment is the result of cognitive dissonance from the use of flow-of-control obfuscation frameworks. IoC, DI, aspects, annotations, O

Anti checked exception sentiment is the result of cognitive dissonance from the use of flow-of-control obfuscation frameworks. IoC, DI, aspects, annotations, ORMs, whatever Spring is, runtime code generation, etc. The rationale is something like "runtime metaprogramming would be really terrific, were it not for all those pesky checked exceptions".