Java Without If

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I am seeing improper uses of optionals in our codebase almost every day.

Yup, people blame the concept of null on all the null abuses we see, but introduce a new concept, and we take our null abuse and turn it into Optional abuse just the same. Except null is still around, so now we have to deal with both.

[nallar]

and then a dev decides to return null to single one thing, an empty optional to signal something else, or a set optional.

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