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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

I’ll be honest, when I was learning to program in Java I mostly just wrapped errors in an empty try catch to shut them up, with no regard for actually handling them.

I assume most other learners do that too.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Java requiring you to write every exception that can happen in your code isn't helpful.

Explicit error types are great, but Java managed to make them on a way where you get almost none of the upside and is so full of downsides that indoctrinated a generation into thinking knowing your errors is bad.