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I spent a bit of time in Swift and came back to web and got into frontend which certainly filled a gap for me!

Now we just need `if let` and `guard let` in TypeScript and we'll be good!

it feels like the new features for recent languages are starting to look the same because they're nice. Kotlin has this stuff too. Rust and Kotlin have a similar style of null handling.

Point well made. I've spent some time with TS, Rust, and Kotlin recently and I really enjoy how they all have these kinds of features. Really feels like they see how well it works elsewhere and learn from one another.

or ruby