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by bunnycorn 2820 days ago
> In fact, I would argue that this new trend of defensive programming in Swift

Swift is not defensive, Swift can be defensive, but it can not if you don't want to.

It's much more "offensive" than Objective-C, for example.

Just a "!" and it's the same as Null Pointer Exception == Fatal Error.