Why does nobody seem to think that `null` is a serious problem in D?

[Stefan Koch]

On Thursday, 22 November 2018 at 15:38:18 UTC, Per Nordlöw wrote:

> The natural way forward for D is to add static analysis in the 
> compiler that tracks use of possibly uninitialized classes (and 
> perhaps also pointers). This has been discussed many times on 
> the forums. The important thing with such an extra warning is 
> to incrementally add it without triggering any false positives. 
> Otherwise programmers aren't gonna use it.

I'd say the problem here is not just false positives, but false 
negatives!