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		freilanzer on Sept 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why Racket? Why Lisp? (2014) > hunting down null pointer exceptions at runtime That seems mostly a fault of the JVM, no?

invisiblerobot on Sept 15, 2022 [–]

Well both. Also in Clojurescript.

Clojure's nil punning and Java's Null Pointers are an unholy alliance here.

But a type system like Elm solves the problem before it ever gets to JavaScript for example.

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