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>Turns out Swift does not have null pointers. At all!

Mostly true under the hood; optional value types are tagged unions (I didn't know this before reading this article and checking for myself), but optional reference types are still, as you'd expect, nullable pointers.[1]

[1] https://godbolt.org/g/QZk6wL




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