Introducing Nullable Reference Types in C#. Is there hope for D, too?

[Atila Neves]

On Friday, 17 November 2017 at 10:45:13 UTC, codephantom wrote:
> Sounds to me, like too many people are writing incorrect code 
> in the first place,

Also known as "writing code".

> and want to offload responsibility onto something other than 
> themself.

That's the whole point of using a safe language, otherwise we'd 
be fine with C.

> This is why we have bloated runtime checks these days.

The post was talking about compile-time checks. I'll take bloated 
runtime checks over memory corruption any day of the week and 
twice on Sundays.

Atila