That’s a good point. You can get away with that with a new language, but adding nullability as a non-default option would break existing code much like making things const by default in C++ would, I suppose.

Lombok had a bunch of great things that should’ve been part of the java language to begin with. They’ve slowly been folded in (so now you have to work out which @NotNull annotation you want) but the language does still improve.

It’s one reason the government is so keen to reduce jury trials. Because nobody is going to send granny down for holding a piece of cardboard.

More like “I am the wellspring from which you flow,” which is, let’s face it, infinitely cooler.