[svick]

For null, there are nullable reference types now.

Exceptions are here to stay though. I don't see how you could retrofit something like Rust's Result on top of .Net. (Also, .Net has a pattern that's an alternative to exceptions: `bool TrySomething(out T result)`. But it's quite limited, in several ways.)

[ttymck]

Are you suggesting a Result type and Exceptions are mutually exclusive? Scala bolted `Either` (a Result type) on top of Java, and it worked exceptionally well in my experience.