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Kotlin does it more efficiently. But you wouldn't want it to be an error to use get without calling ifPresent. Sometimes you know that the type system is wrong and that in fact, although this thing is optional, it will in your case always be there. So being able to rapidly convert optionality into an error (we might call it a NullPointerException) is important. Kotlin has the !! operator for that.