> I remember a lot of praise for duck "typing" as if it was an innovation, and claims you should just write unit tests to catch type errors.
> People kept glossing over the fact that writing typed code would be so much easier than writing untyped code with sufficient manual tests to catch type errors, because no one did the last bit. Things just broke runtime instead.
That was the dumbest thing ever. Exchanging automation for lots of manual work was supposed to be innovation?
So many tradeoffs so sometimes someone could write a clever, unmaintainable bit of brainfuck in the production app.
> People kept glossing over the fact that writing typed code would be so much easier than writing untyped code with sufficient manual tests to catch type errors, because no one did the last bit. Things just broke runtime instead.
That was the dumbest thing ever. Exchanging automation for lots of manual work was supposed to be innovation?
So many tradeoffs so sometimes someone could write a clever, unmaintainable bit of brainfuck in the production app.