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It really depends on what kind of software you build. There are certain kinds of software for which strongly-typed languages (in the sense of ML, not C/Java) a
by vog 10y ago
It really depends on what kind of software you build.
There are certain kinds of software for which strongly-typed languages (in the sense of ML, not C/Java) are heavily underused. For those cases, parent's rant is quite appropriate and mostly justified.
For example, we really, really want to have our browsers written in a language like Rust, rather than C or C++. Same with web servers, and public-facing web applications.