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Rust is hard but I've never had the compiler just throw up its hands and tell me it's up to me to figure out what's wrong.

• astrange 2y ago
  That's not the one I was thinking of. https://anthony.noided.media/blog/haskell/programming/2020/05/14/haskell-errors.html https://anthony.noided.media/blog/haskell/programming/2020/0... Something like Idris or Coq would have even more complex messages, though I don't have an example on hand.
  • cageface 2y ago
    Ok but these are mainly academic research languages. Swift has the backing of the most valuable company in the world and is what they're pushing as the right way to develop for their platform.
    • astrange 2y ago
      Haskell is definitely a real industrial language! Many of the other languages in the formally verified/dependent type space are academic, but there's government interest in things like Ada too because they don't want their planes to crash. Couldn't say how good its error messages are though.
      • paperplatter 2y ago
        I've seriously used Erlang for a while, and Haskell looks kinda similar. Ingenious ideas there, cool features, but in the end it's cumbersome to use. So I can see why these are niche and wouldn't consider them next to big ones like Swift or C++.