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Any type system that allows null or any shouldn't be trusted any more than a dynamic language

• rubber_duck 7y ago
  It's not so much that I trust in the type system to prove correctness it's more that the type system and build system setup is a barrier to entry that puts a threshold on newbies publishing packages. Personally I've only seen such low quality code published and used in Node and PHP communities - because of the missing standard library and newbies creating noise with creating low quality libs or not knowing how to select/filter those and increasing their popularity. For example I recently had to deal with a grunt build system (could not chose a different task runner) and the quality of those plugins ...