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programming is fine, you nerds. it's implicitly nullable types that aren't fine. i've been saying this for years

@Efi oh i meant the first thing, the apology for inventing the null reference. it was Tony Hoare's fault in ALGOL 60 and he calls it his "billion-dollar mistake"

@Efi you need a doctor. here, i'll give you a valid reference [laugh track]

@typhlosion
C# 8 is going to introduce a switch to make reference types non-nullable by default.

@typhlosion
Yeah, except I think I forgot the definition of "default" while writing that toot.
But C# has also been doing a lot to make null a lot more useful too.

On a side note, your fursona pic is really cute.

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