Optionals are like having a strong type system to me: they used to feel superfluous and unnecessary, but once I got used to it, I’m happy to have my compiler en

Optionals are like having a strong type system to me: they used to feel superfluous and unnecessary, but once I got used to it, I’m happy to have my compiler ensure that aspect of my code is correct rather than finding out I made a mistake from intermittent runtime errors.