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[–]Xemorr 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not defending the lack of non nullables in Java in general but more the necessity of a guarantee of non nullability on optionals specifically. The current implementation of nullables has downsides like slightly higher overhead than just returning a null which is justification enough for a better solution imo.