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Probably the big one is non-nullable types [1], aka 'The Billion Dollar Mistake', which would break everything.

[1] https://gist.github.com/olmobrutall/31d2abafe0b21b017d56

If that is to be done, there needs to be some legacy settings for the compiler. I'll happily, trade inconvience for the ability to completely abolish null from my code. I already use a Maybe pattern to avoid returning null, but I cannot avoid checking for null because it's so ingrained in the standard lib.

Cobra language solved this and compiles to C#, they can introduce non nil references, but yes they can't scrap the BCL which is nil ridden.

Seems to go against null propagation operator though :)

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