Comment by trealira

>calling unwrap() on some optional fields to convert them to non-option types then this should raise alarm bells

Yeah, definitely. And the equivalent without optional types, dereferencing a null pointer, might happen because they don't even realize it could be null in the first place. Not everyone writes "assert(ptr != 0)" every time they assume a pointer isn't null, because it happens frequently (if the code doesn't use references enough, which IIRC happens with Google).

When you have an option type, you're made aware of it explicitly, and calling `.unwrap()` should, like you said, raise alarm bells and make you think anout whether you actually want to crash the program.