> But do the bugs get to production? That was my question. Yes, in my case anyway. That code didn't have any unit tests around it. Goland didn't flag it. It

> But do the bugs get to production? That was my question. Yes, in my case anyway. That code didn't have any unit tests around it. Goland didn't flag it. It's a pattern that was "surprising" to me at least. Particularly since it breaks with tradition. I consider Goland to be invaluable when coding go. But still, it's not perfect. > There was the Digg outage caused by a default argument being [] instead of None FWIW Pycharm flags this now, and can fix this automatically. Not sure about VSCode. I guess the point I'm making is IDE's should find the novice mistakes, and then a lot of my complaints about languages go away.