[pianoben]

> what about interop with Java?

From the proposal discussion[0], the runtime representation on the JVM will just be `Object`.

[0]: https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/discussions/447#discussioncom...

[ubertaco]

Oof. That's pretty gross: just throw away all typesafety?

A `Result<T, E>` return type is way better.

This feels like it'll be viewed like Java's `Date` class: a mistake to be avoided.