jOOQ has been around for a while now (since 2009!) and by now we can say we've seen quite a bit of things about the SQL and Java languages. Some of our design decisions are particular in the way jOOQ thinks about programming with SQL. These include: Nullability (let's stop fighting it) Value types (let's … Continue reading 5 Things You May Not Have Known About jOOQ
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What if every object was an array? No more NullPointerExceptions!
To NULL or not to NULL? Programming language designers inevitably have to decide whether they support NULLs or not. And they've proven to have a hard time getting this right. NULL is not intuitive in any language, because NULL is an axiom of that language, not a rule that can be derived from lower-level axioms. … Continue reading What if every object was an array? No more NullPointerExceptions!