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title: "Tag: kotlin-nullsafety | Shreyas Patil's Blog"
description: "Senior Android Engineer @ Deliveroo. Google Developer Expert for Android. Writing about Android, Kotlin, and AI."
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# Tag:kotlin-nullsafety

All the articles with the tag "kotlin-nullsafety".

# Tag:kotlin-nullsafety

- [![](https://blog.shreyaspatil.dev/_astro/cover-runtime-surprise-kotlin-breaks-non-nullability-promise-on-developer-cheating-in-field-initialization.BuZpygJw_Z23E48N.webp)](https://blog.shreyaspatil.dev/runtime-surprise-kotlin-breaks-non-nullability-promise-on-developer-cheating-in-field-initialization)[## Runtime Surprise: Kotlin Breaks Non-Nullability Promise on Developer Cheating in Field Initialization](https://blog.shreyaspatil.dev/runtime-surprise-kotlin-breaks-non-nullability-promise-on-developer-cheating-in-field-initialization)20 Sep, 2023A cautionary tale about Kotlin's non-nullability. Discover how incorrect field initialization can lead to unexpected NullPointerExceptions at runtime.

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