#5
Mar 24
The Billion Dollar Mistake
Tony Hoare introduced null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 and later called it his billion-dollar mistake. C# 8 introduced nullable reference types to help, but I still see NullReferenceException in every codebase I touch. Are we just bad at using the tools, or is null fundamentally broken?
By: alice_dev
Mar 24, 2026 18:39