Within the 90 seconds of thought while writing a Hacker News post, he's discovered that decades of language design and type theory were actually a terrible idea

Within the 90 seconds of thought while writing a Hacker News post, he's discovered that decades of language design and type theory were actually a terrible idea now that he thinks about it. One of the tools I work on in my spare time is a Poker calculator that uses enums extensively for things like suits and hand strengths (flush, full house, etc.). This program doesn't connect to the internet in any way. But I hadn't considered that someone might come along and force me to serialize these poker hands and send them over the wire and change the number of suits and ranks in a deck of cards so that it creates incompatibilities. I guess I should go back and rewrite my code to remove those enums, since that's going to be a problem.