"If it compiles it works" and "no runtime exceptions" are cute tag lines but very damaging in the long run. No language can live up to that.
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Replying to @deech
Your type system may be great but if this becomes a meme the community will stop working on error recovery and runtime debugging.
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Replying to @deech
"no runtime errors" is a lot different from "no bugs" ... And there are always bugs in the runtime itself.
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Replying to @jessitron
Damn right. A bug that's silently handled at runtime instead of blowing up is way worse.
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Replying to @deech @jessitron
Also “no runtime exception” doesn’t imply “no runtime error”. We don’t claim you can eliminate tests. Not yet anyway :)
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Replying to @edwinbrady @jessitron
As an expert in this area, do you notice a cultural resistance to runtime debugging in strongly typed environments?
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Replying to @deech @jessitron
I don’t know about resistance, but there doesn’t seem to be much interest in making tools that keep up with languages
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unless there is stuff I’ve missed, of course
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