> Exceptions are a hell of a lot better than littering your code with null checks or error code checks, especially when you forget one and get a null pointer error or your code wanders away from the root cause and fails later.

That's basically limitation of the language. Null checks and result checking can basically be abstracted away with non-nullable types, option types, and result types and bind.

You only need to do match or check right at the edge, so they're not everywhere.