Sounds good. Doesn't work.

Fixing NPEs automatically would be a nice start

It's called dynatrace, Davis ai, it's expensive as hell.

@glowFX NPEs can be fixed by static analysis that reminds devs to check for null before they use a nullable value. In modern staticly typed languages, the compiler does that analysis and refuses to give you an executable when you forgot a check.

@Oktokolo Damn, I knew Java can't be considered modern anymore.

@glowFX Java had a thin cover of dust and cob webs from day one. It was never modern...

@Oktokolo I am (mostly) German, so I like that thin cover of dust aka "specs". ;)

At least your comment inspired me to try static code analysis once more and thus were fixing potential NPEs half day long. :D

@glowFX Yeah, feels good when tools do the hard part of the bugfixing work. External static analyzers aren't as bad as some decades ago - even for PHP they sortof work now if you help them by describing the function/method contract in doc comments.