My March 2019 blog post “Better Default Nullpointerexception Messages Coming to Java?” was written when the draft JEP for better NullPointerException messages had not yet been targeted to a particular JDK release. Since then, that draft JEP became JEP 358 (“Helpful NullPointerExceptions”), which has been targeted for JDK 14. Even better, the initial implementation (JDK-8218628) ...