I thought this post might be a joke because it claimed that it was saving verbosity here! ?? is also the null coalescing operator in C#. Not only is it nice and

I thought this post might be a joke because it claimed that it was saving verbosity here! ?? is also the null coalescing operator in C#. Not only is it nice and short, but since it's an infix operator it chains in a much cleaner way than nesting static method calls.