when writing code, I like the idea 'fail fast, fail hard'. i.e. my IDE helps me fail fast by showing me bad code. my program crashes and burns with a verbose st

when writing code, I like the idea 'fail fast, fail hard'. i.e. my IDE helps me fail fast by showing me bad code. my program crashes and burns with a verbose stack trace when I commit some runtime heinousness javascript doesn't do that, and the first time they walk into a coding landmine they'll be scratching their heads for hours debugging it