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Nicer NPEs in Android L

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KitKat + dalvikvm:

 java.lang.NullPointerException
  at com.roundsapp.HomeActivity.onCreate(HomeActivity.java:61)
  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5312)

Android L + ART:

java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method 'void android.app.ActionBar.setTitle(java.lang.CharSequence)' on a null object reference
  at com.roundsapp.HomeActivity.onCreate(HomeActivity.java:61)
  at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5720)
  ...

I expect this to be extremely handy for those lines of code that involve chain several calls.

Why doesn't desktop Java have this?