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Progress, it's now a solved problem in modern languages like Rust, Swift or Kotlin See for example: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html https
by jmfayard 8y ago
Progress, it's now a solved problem in modern languages like Rust, Swift or Kotlin
See for example: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html
- masklinn 8y agoI mean it's been a solved problem since the 70s if not earlier, the problem has always been uptake. And that is not solved e.g. C++ recently introduced std::optional, which is not a type-safe version of a null pointer but is instead a null pointer wrapper for value types.