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> Rust errors can be equally unhelpful. Also, the error you posted is hands down awful. It doesn't tell you what went wrong, and it's excessively naive to rely on compiler to offer a correct fix in all but the most trivial cases

What? It tells the user exactly what's wrong

> Every program becomes a Sisyphean struggle to wrangle through all those unnecessary objects to finally get to write the actual code

That is the cost of non-nullable types and correctness. You still have to do the Sisyphean struggle in other programming languages, but without hints from the compiler.




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