Disallow null references in safe code?

[Francesco Cattoglio]

On Saturday, 1 February 2014 at 18:58:11 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> It also became clear that a library solution would improve 
> things but cannot compete with a language solution.
I'm really shocked! This issue must be way bigger than I think, 
if even Andrei is asking for a language solution instead of a 
library one! :o)

> Bottom line: a language change for non-null references is on 
> the table. It will be an important focus of 2014.
That's interesting news. Null dereferences can be real annoying, 
sometimes.