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Kind of agree, but in my view preventing the programmer to make mistakes is futile. I have seen awful stuff in languages made to prevent errors. It's much bett
by rogue7 3mo ago
Kind of agree, but in my view preventing the programmer to make mistakes is futile. I have seen awful stuff in languages made to prevent errors.
It's much better to give all the power to the programmer, to allow him to fix his mistakes rather than fantasising about preventing them.
- pfdietz 3mo agoI'm not big on static type checking in most situations -- adequate testing should find the type errors too -- but one place it looks very useful is avoiding data races in multithreaded programs. See Rust.
- bigpeopleareold 3mo ago... or Ada.