I've also noticed that a strong type system and things like immutability have worked tremendously well for minimizing the amount bugs. They can't necessarily help with business rules but a compiler can definitely clear out all the "stupid" bugs.

Dealing with a 15-year old legacy codebase with strong types: awful but manageable. Without: not a chance.

In case the youtube embedding doesn't work, here's the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU

It's such a great book, both hilarious and sad at times. I also went to eBay to search for a copy before realizing I already own the book.

Where is ChatGPT when you need it smh think of the time wasted instead of diving deep into a masterpiece