Thanks for your amazing articles, Amos! > I'm interested not in what the language lets you do, but what is typical for a language This is the crux of the prob

Thanks for your amazing articles, Amos! > I'm interested not in what the language lets you do, but what is typical for a language This is the crux of the problem. To step away from Go/Rust and pick on another language, one could argue that Python lets you annotate every variable for some linting checks, but that doesn't mean they all are. This leads to horrible time-sinks where someone accidentally adds a comma to the end of a line, turning a scalar into a 1-tuple. I know folks to whom this has happened and who burned a half day trying to track it down. I personally get annoyed by the "Language X gives me the freedom to do Y." I find that I and a lot of my peers often prefer constraints imposed (instead of freedom given) by the language as a way of preventing countless issues at runtime.