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[–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

People who are annoyed by types have never had to spend weeks of their life hunting for a missing property on an object.

Compilation errors are so much more preferable than finding out the same error at runtime.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago*

    Ada has got your back. Entire classes of runtime bugs in C code are eliminated by compiler errors.

    You can't even make a integer overflow unless you've explicitly declared that statement as unsafe.

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