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Re:New Features in Java 14 by baddox on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @06:33PM (#22479784)
> Languages like Rust that don't even know null (or nil as in Go), have finally solved the problem.

I wouldn't quite phrase it that way, since it's nothing new. OCaml from the 1990s has no null value (you need to represent potentially missing values with Option). I suspect there are older examples than that.

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Re:New Features in Java 14 by swsieber on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @12:09AM (#22481358)
I would tentatively phrase it like that. It's not that rust is original in that regard, but instead effective though actually being adopted.
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