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I guess I'm only opinionated about it because I'm 100% not smart enough to get it right unless something stops me getting it wrong. ("It" can be pretty much any

I guess I'm only opinionated about it because I'm 100% not smart enough to get it right unless something stops me getting it wrong. ("It" can be pretty much anything here.) It's why I'm such a terrible Python programmer. The foundry analogy is spot on - there's nothing to stop me throwing my grandma in, so at some point you can bet I accidentally will.

gilbert_vanova 4y ago
> I'm 100% not smart enough to get it right unless something stops me getting it wrong IMO, type systems are harsher on modeling mistakes than something like Python is. Sure, you'll get it wrong the first time (sorry Grandma!). And in Python, you can mutate your system rapidly into a new state that can accommodate the old model's mistaken assumption. If your program starts getting complex enough that the mutation speed is dropping -- deconstruct it into smaller, manageable problems. Humans are 100% not smart enough to build systems the way a lot of corporate shops keep trying to.