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> (I realize that this may elicit strong reactions from some, but please give it some careful thought before giving voice to those reactions.)

Really? Over a language feature proposal? That would make it more expressive?

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I imagine that many suggestions for prominent open source projects, let alone a widely adopted language, turn into forums similar to small town town-hall meetings.

There are probably a number of people of different walks of life and usage of the lang that voice opinions regardless of their relevance or significance in modern adoption of the lang.

There’s already been strong reactions by some in the Java subreddit. A lot have bike shedding over syntax and some just don’t like the idea of handling exceptions this way.

TIL about bikeshedding, thank you @[vips7L](https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=vips7L).

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

There is nothing programmers get more fiery about than language syntax. Nothing.

(Editors are a close second, though those holy wars are cooling over time as people move away from coding in the terminal.)

> There is nothing programmers get more fiery about than language syntax. Nothing.

According to Wadler's Law [1], there is something: Syntax of comments.

[1]: https://wiki.c2.com/?WadlersLaw

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