Proper optional use is indeed a habitual thing. When I was first transitioning from ObjC to Swift I found them to be an annoyance, but after using Swift for the

Proper optional use is indeed a habitual thing. When I was first transitioning from ObjC to Swift I found them to be an annoyance, but after using Swift for the past few years I find myself wondering how my ObjC code ever ran as well as it did without them. I’m now reluctant to use languages that lack option types.