To the credit of the die-hard Java community, you all really seem to love and support even the most horrific syntax and awful language features. You love the pain. The rest of us are here for you... I promise software can be fun.
Checked exceptions are far and away the worst part of java and I'm glad that no other language I've personally encountered have them!
On a more real note, I work at a shop with a fair amount of java now and checked exceptions are definitely my biggest complaint. I hope we adopt this, I'm sure we won't, but I'm glad to see a little movement on what I feel is the crusty status quo in the java world.