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Re:Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives... by joe_mwangi on Friday June 19, 2026 @12:10PM (#48600155)
Since they plan to have null-restricted types, then I don't see any issue.
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Re:Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives... by Dylan16807 on Friday June 19, 2026 @02:05PM (#48601321)
> plan to

Well wasn't that the argument above, that the stuff they added so far isn't proper at least in part because they didn't fix that problem yet?

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Re:Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives... by joe_mwangi on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:05PM (#48603233)
> yet But up the comment section, someone thinks they won't be there 'in the future'
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Re:Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives... by Dylan16807 on Saturday June 20, 2026 @05:20AM (#48607706)
The comment that says it won't be there in the near future? That's seems like a reasonable claim to me.

And a promise to eventually fix a busted implementation doesn't undo it being busted for a significant amount of time.

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Re:Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives... by joe_mwangi on Friday June 26, 2026 @05:07AM (#48684236)
Better late than never.
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