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> some projects primarily need to develop functionality quickly; others prioritize stability

But they get the ballance completely wrong. In Python, I can just write code that returns some object or None (Python equivalent of null). In Java/C/C++ I can't - I have to appease the type system (i.e. declare the return type), but there is also no way to even later tell the compiler that it can't be null!



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