This was a great essay. Type systems are one of the holy wars of programming, and I don't think there will ever be a truce. I think it is is great to see some w

This was a great essay. Type systems are one of the holy wars of programming, and I don't think there will ever be a truce. I think it is is great to see some writing that explains why that occurs, and how to think about the situation. It is also interesting to see some things that I haven't thought about: Type systems can encode effects that could free the programmer from thinking about locks? Dependent Type Systems can perform program synthesis? Where can I find out more? I know anonymous predictions from nobodies on the internet are completely uninteresting, but I can totally envision this as one of the essays that gets linked hundreds of times over the next decade or two on the front page of HN with a (2015) in the title.