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Now with Optional in Java 8 its not an issue.

• alexkindel 11y ago
  Optional is great, but it would be far more powerful if types not wrapped in Optional were guaranteed to not be null.
  • TheCoelacanth 11y ago
    And if Optional values themselves were guaranteed not to be null.
• wtetzner 11y ago
  It's still an issue, because as far as the type system is concerned, every reference type can still be null. Optional gives you a way to avoid using nulls, but null is still in the language and libraries still use it.