Understanding null safety

Written by Bob Nystrom July 2020 Null safety is the largest change we've made to Dart since we replaced the original unsound optional type system with a sound static type system in Dart 2.0. When Dart first launched, compile-time null safety was a rare feature needing a long introduction. Today, Kotlin, Swift, Rust, and other languages all have their own answers to what has become a very familiar