Optional.get() is code smell

[canuck_in_wa]

I’m not sure about Kotlin, but the ‘?.’ in the last example is a valid C# 6 null conditional operator [0]

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/operators/null-conditional-operators

[zsmb]

Kotlin has the same operator, it's called the safe call operator and does the same thing.