EG meeting 2023-06-14

[Dan Smith]

EG meeting today, June 14, at 4pm UTC (9am PDT, 12pm EDT).

Lots of recent discussions that we can revisit:

- "Design document on nullability and value types": Brian shared a document describing the evolution to our current design over the last few months, including making use of nullness rather than '.ref' and '.val' types

- "Preload attribute": Dan H discussing specifying stronger guarantees about the treatment of 'Preload' for Value Objects

- "implicit constructor translation?": Dan H exploring the translation strategy of implicit constructors

- "Minor question about a `MyVal.default`-like syntax": Kevin asks about the distinction between 'Foo.default' and 'new Foo()'

- "The Good Default Value": Kevin discusses the motivation behind default values for primitives