alt Hacker NewsThat bit may be true, but the underlying error of a null reference that caused a panic was exactly the same in both incidents.
That bit may be true, but the underlying error of a null reference that caused a panic was exactly the same in both incidents.
Yep: it is wild for them to claim that a strongly-typed language would have saved them when it didn't.
Relying on language features instead of writing code well will always eventually backfire.