This won't happen. But Java is likely to get value types, which would be non-null just as in other languages with value types. The issue of Optional<T> being n

This won't happen. But Java is likely to get value types, which would be non-null just as in other languages with value types. The issue of Optional<T> being nullable is an extremely uncommon one - I have seen it happen once ever, and there were way bigger issues going on that happened to manifest that way. It's one of those "that's dumb but ultimately makes no difference" problems that many languages have.