> there’s a better chance that the programmer forgets to properly handle all of the possibilities Author totally forgot about IDEs. Yes, I know some coders fro

> there’s a better chance that the programmer forgets to properly handle all of the possibilities Author totally forgot about IDEs. Yes, I know some coders frown upon IDEs and even color coding (like Rob Pike), but any modern code editor will shout loudly about an unhandled null-pointer check. Also depends on the language, e.g. it's less reliable in Javascript and Python, but in static typed languages it's pretty obvious at no additional cognitive load.