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is this different than what we do now / somehow immune to the problems inherent in schematizing?
Your second point is a very good one… although perhaps making the schema explicit makes it easier to locate representation vs reality bugs
Many of the most important bugs result from slippage between what the programmer thinks data structures are representing and outside world.
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