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by freilanzer 1373 days ago
> hunting down null pointer exceptions at runtime

That seems mostly a fault of the JVM, no?

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Well both. Also in Clojurescript.

Clojure's nil punning and Java's Null Pointers are an unholy alliance here.

But a type system like Elm solves the problem before it ever gets to JavaScript for example.