Yes, I agree, I don't understand why modern languages don't make references immutable by default. The best I've seen is symmetry between val and var. Talking ab

Yes, I agree, I don't understand why modern languages don't make references immutable by default. The best I've seen is symmetry between val and var. Talking about safe defaults, I remember being very disappointed when Jetbrains changed the default scope in Kotlin to be public....