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This is so awesome! I tried building literally this year or so ago after being inspired by Borgo, but my kung fu wasn't as strong as yours.

Are nil pointers still possible/allowed in AGL? After a lack of enums, this is my biggest pet peeve.

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I was also quite inspired by borgo. But unlike borgo, yes, at this time nil is part of the language, which allows you to use other libraries without the need to make laborious wrappers. But if I can manage to create a script to automatically make the wrappers, I'd love to remove the nil keyword entirely.

There's also the question of how to handle pointer types which get initialized as nil. Specially prevalent in places where you have to deserialize data.

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