[klabb3]

> Wow, that's painful to read.

And the dismissive tone of some people including Ian. But to be fair before Rust there was definitely this widespread myth in the dev hivemind that nullable pointers is just the cost of performance and low level control. What’s fascinating is how easy and hindsight-obvious it was to rid code of them. I’ve never had to use pointers in Rust and I’ve worked on quite advanced stuff.

[lupire]

Nullable pointers are fine for those who need them. What we're asking for is non-nullable pointers.