So just use a programming language with less annoying quirks and hidden rules. Especially when those quirks are issues at compile time, not issues at 3 AM in pr

So just use a programming language with less annoying quirks and hidden rules. Especially when those quirks are issues at compile time, not issues at 3 AM in production. "And I found a whole lot of references to req.randomThing and even some req.randomFunction() calls. I then proceeded to search back through every single middleware function which had run before, to figure out what exactly was going on." In a statically typed languages names are bound at compile time, so you can actually jump to the definition of each name using tooling. A JS tool can only make an educated guess.