dsouflis

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@adamo even if he does, he'll put a straw man in his place and continue to blabber on Twitter and step in 10 times a day
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@LWN the dissonance between my cheering for OCaml and my having to use... Java at work, is so sad...
dsouflisDec 1, 2022
No need to, he fell into the cauldron when he was little
dsouflisNov 23, 2022

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/22/developer-tools/meta-java-nullsafe/

IMO, languages that allow NPEs should have been retired already; languages that offer nullable types are better; those that, additionally, allow opting in to treat possible NPEs as compiler errors are in the right direction (Scala 3 explicit nulls); and those that lack the concept of Null, altogether, are the ones that we should be using in the 21st century.

Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta

Nullsafe is a new static analysis tool that is used at Meta to detect NullPointerException (NPE) errors in Java code.

Engineering at Meta