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by tathisit 1746 days ago
Kotlin does it, but it's next to useless because the ecosystem makes heavy use of null.
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Tainnor 1746 days ago
what? I don't feel it's "pointless" at all. Many popular Java libraries and frameworks (including Spring) use nullability annotations which can be interpreted correctly by Kotlin. It's true that I can't be 100% sure not to get NPEs, but I think it's close enough and I've rarely seen NPEs in Kotlin codebases.
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rickette 1745 days ago
Indeed, Kotlin's null handling is great. NPE's in Kotlin code aren't common.
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syncsynchalt 1745 days ago
Kotlin is my suggestion too.

Kotlin (or any other JVM variant that does non-nullability in a seamless way) and coding guidelines should get you 90% of the way to a null-free world.

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