I have this gist and I wondered why it’s the case that an assert caught in the body of a future fails silently rather than going to the catch clause, whilst a normal throw is caught correctly.
Anyone are to give an explanation for this?
Your second snippet doesn’t print the error either. An AssertionError is not a subclass of Exception apparently. If you want to catch it you’ll have to catch a Throwable.
Shoot! you’re right. Ok makes sense.
For searchers, Exceptions and Errors are distinct in Java & the JVM. Errors are typically things that you don’t want to catch, so you should nearly always catch Exception rather than Throwable if you need a very broad catch block. Errors usually indicate either a programming error that should be fixed (as with assertions) or a condition that can’t be recovered from (out of memory, system shutdown, etc.)
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