> Java has so few features that there's not much to ban Exactly. Simplicity was an explicit design goal of Java. Most items in your list are fine actually, in

> Java has so few features that there's not much to ban Exactly. Simplicity was an explicit design goal of Java. Most items in your list are fine actually, including raw types and inner classes. Regarding checked exceptions, it is unfortunate that people don't fully understand it, see here: https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-exception-handling-falls-short-f7f932488aba https://mckoder.medium.com/the-achilles-heel-of-c-why-its-ex...