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by SquishyPanda23 1768 days ago
I'm glad you've had a good experience, but yes it is a source of runtime bugs.

One piece of code from a well established tech company would just crashloop if authentication failed. I've seen others just die if the RPC service couldn't make a connection.

So in practice, yes I do have to spend my time tracking down nil pointer runtime bugs both from colleagues and also from other organizations.