Agreed with 2. I honestly don't understand why the compiler doesn't do analysis to catch such cases. As someone who doesn't work on these things, perhaps it's

Agreed with 2. I honestly don't understand why the compiler doesn't do analysis to catch such cases. As someone who doesn't work on these things, perhaps it's too intensive? I've made silly nil pointer mistakes before and wondered why the compiler didn't say 'hey dummy, look what you did here'.