This is why I find myself preferring static languages (Rust currently) over my previous focus (Python). Midway through a late-night debugging of a service I’d

This is why I find myself preferring static languages (Rust currently) over my previous focus (Python). Midway through a late-night debugging of a service I’d written in Python, I realised I’d spent more time bug fixing and debugging to add more error handling/resiliency (all of which added to the general mess of the code) than would have taken to implement the solution in a statically-typed language, and I ultimately had less guarantees and less performance than the statically-typed language would have given me. So yes, don’t get sucked into debugging and don’t get sucked into “but it’s faster to write”.