[uryga]

https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/do_notation

rough analogy: `await` replaces `.then()`, do-notation replaces `.flatMap()`

[int_19h]

C# has had Nullable<T> for many years before it got stuff like ?. and ?? that mostly covers this, and it was, well, tolerable.

[BoorishBears]

Ergonomics sucked and a lot of people didn't use them (or even know they existed!) because ergonomics sucked