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shepherdjerredlast Thursday at 5:22 PM1 replyview on HN

A good type system helps with this quite a lot


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crazygringolast Thursday at 5:27 PM

It helps some. There are plenty of errors, a large majority I'd say, where types don't help at all. Types don't free up memory or avoid off-by-one errors or keep you from mixing up two counter variables.