... While your history comments can be interesting, not every comment about a feature of Rust needs a "rebuttal" about how it wasn't the first language with tha

... While your history comments can be interesting, not every comment about a feature of Rust needs a "rebuttal" about how it wasn't the first language with that feature. Especially not a comment that wasn't even mildly suggesting that Rust was the first language to not have null pointers/references! The comparison here was to "easier statically typed languages" (likely with an implicit "that one is likely to consider for a project these days"), with Go and Java explicitly raised for comparison. It's perfectly reasonable to respond to that with "There's no null", without explicitly acknowledging that there's also other languages (even ones before Rust) that don't have null.