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In Java land checked exceptions are considered to be an anti pattern for sometime. If I remember correctly one of the major change in Hibernate ORM 3.0 was converting checked exceptions to runtime equivalents (ie, caller is free to disregard the exception) (this happened 10-12 yrs ago). Coming back to Golang, you get the same behaviour if you are not checking `error is nil` condition

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When Java finally got generics, it didn't add any support for generic sum types of checked exceptions.

  stream.map(f).collect(…)

should obviously be able to throw anything f could throw. But instead f is forced to wrap every checked exception, and so pretty much everyone has given up and started declaring new exceptions as unchecked.

Not sure what you mean by "free to disregard", but the exception being unchecked doesn't fundamentally alter the control flow of a thrown exception. It only affects type checking - hence the name.

> In Java land checked exceptions are considered to be an anti pattern for sometime.

It depends on whom you ask. Some people quite like checked exceptions. Either way, both checked and unchecked exceptions are superior to golang's approach to error handling.

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