You&#x27;d like to think that, but they can be caught and used just like other exceptions. The one caveat is that you can&#x27;t force code to account for potential RuntimeException&#x27;s.
With things like an IOException, the code has to account for the possibility that the exception will be thrown.<p>So, they are a little different, but the tooling for them is pretty much the same, greatly diminishing the effect.