On: The trouble with Checked Exceptions (C# architect)

[lsd5you]

It depends what standards you hold the library to. Null pointer exceptions and other runtime exceptions are can be treated as errors - something which needs fixing in the code, rather than something that can be handled. A world of difference.

[pohl → lsd5you]

And that is still the case with the Guava Throwables strategy, which only effects how checked exceptions are propagated.