I wish you the best of luck at defending against Apple's lawyers backed by a patent system that no longer promotes the progress of science or useful arts.

something something, i wish apple lawyers going after projects sponsored by microsoft. :)

Yep, also C# has the same damn thing specialized to optional chaining for the same exact reason. The Prior Art is Strong in This One.

Thank you, I was wondering if they had patented a half-assed version of monads.

option chaining definitely is that. seen in both swift and rust. and I guess in some styles of javascript too afaik

They haven't patented monads or any programming feature.