Yes, although I’ve never understood what the objection is. I’m sad that they removed checked exceptions from Kotlin (which is otherwise better than Java in almost every respect).

When used sparingly, checked exceptions are great, specifically because the compiler forces you to catch and handle exceptions.

Maybe if there were an easy to way to convert back and forth between checked exceptions and “Either” wrapper unions, that would fix the situations where checked exceptions are tedious or awkward to use. But I’ve honestly never felt that to be a problem, they’re fine.