Things are a little bit more nuanced than 'everything is a string', since you can create types that are other things. I think this comment gets at that in a fa

Things are a little bit more nuanced than 'everything is a string', since you can create types that are other things. I think this comment gets at that in a fairly accurate way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943844