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No Nullable Setters/Getters Support

calendar_today January 1, 0001 person domain protobuf

We have heard feedback that some folks would like protobuf to support nullable getters/setters in their null-friendly language of choice (particularly Kotlin, C#, and Rust). While this does seem to be a helpful feature for folks using those languages, the design choice has tradeoffs which have led to the Protobuf team choosing not to implement them. Explicit presence is not a concept that directly maps to the traditional notion of nullability.

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