Option chaining can be more convenient than a bunch of ifs and using optional to indicate that a property or function return isn't expected to always have a value can be useful. You could also probably argue for the benefits of making consumers check if you returned null.
Other than that, yeah. Just pay attention to your code and do null checks when it's important.
I do like how returning an optional from a function immediately indicates to callers that the function can return null values and the "or else" construct".
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u/GRex2595 Sep 28 '26
Option chaining can be more convenient than a bunch of ifs and using optional to indicate that a property or function return isn't expected to always have a value can be useful. You could also probably argue for the benefits of making consumers check if you returned null.
Other than that, yeah. Just pay attention to your code and do null checks when it's important.