I sympathize, I think checked exceptions are a good idea overall, just poorly used in Java, but the current trend of languages is clearly showing that we're mov

I sympathize, I think checked exceptions are a good idea overall, just poorly used in Java, but the current trend of languages is clearly showing that we're moving away from the idea. None of the languages that came out on the JVM these past ten years (Scala, Groovy, Clojure, Kotlin, Ceylon, etc...) support checked exceptions.