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I tend to disagree: strong typing is very valuable in the hardware design space - it's just that you couldn't convince hardware devs of this. If they had exposu

I tend to disagree: strong typing is very valuable in the hardware design space - it's just that you couldn't convince hardware devs of this. If they had exposure to a programming language it was C (and possibly some assembly language) so they wanted something closer to what they were familiar with. When I worked in EDA I was given a project to get rid of linting errors in our generated HDL code. We generated both VHDL and Verilog. Our generated VHDL had very few problems thanks to strong typing. But there were lots of problems to fix in the Verilog code caused by it's weak typing.

Avamander 7y ago
It's very valuable but not worth acquiring for most developers. I write relatively lot of C, I don't enjoy the familiarity, it just gets the job done for me in 90% less time because the tooling is there, the IDE is there, the documentation and support is good, the libraries are there - it matters a lot in what languages I find tolerable I've noticed. I like PLPGSQL, it's also has all that I've listed, I didn't like Ada and it doesn't have what I listed, because I had to "invent the wheel" so much. In the end, why spend 50-90 % more time to get that last x% of some foggy benefit?