Is the point of null safety to prevent the accidental assignment of null to a variable and then later doing something like nullable_variable.foo() which would cause a runtime error?
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Yes:
With null safety, your runtime null-dereference errors turn into edit-time analysis errors.
It means that a lingering problem that would otherwise become known only when its already too late will turn into an error that you get while you are developing, so you will know about it and can fix it before it ever reaches a customer.
