Well, let's be clear, if it doesn't work, you know at compile time, not at runtime. I don't care how broken things are at compile time if I'm guaranteed that ev

Well, let's be clear, if it doesn't work, you know at compile time, not at runtime. I don't care how broken things are at compile time if I'm guaranteed that everything will work at runtime. That's kind of the whole point of nix. It's not impossible to write code with errors, but you should not be able to build as long as the errors exist.