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It took Java until Java SE 14 (last year) to produce NPE stacktraces which actually tell you which variable was null. At least in Rust third parties could have
by ymbeld 6y ago
It took Java until Java SE 14 (last year) to produce NPE stacktraces which actually tell you which variable was null. At least in Rust third parties could have created a library to remedy a similar situation.
- jdmichal 6y agoFor whatever reason, it look a long time for parameters and locals to have a name in addition to a slot and a type in the JVM bytecode. Before that data was introduced, it was an impossible task. Also why things like de-/serialization frameworks required annotations on parameters duplicating the parameter name.