alt Hacker NewsLuckily these aren't exclusive! You can do all of those things with a strong type system as well, and get the benefits of all of them.
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z0ltan • today at 3:33 AM
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Luckily these aren't exclusive! You can do all of those things with a strong type system as well, and get the benefits of all of them.
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100%. Types don’t replace fuzzing, property tests, chaos, or adversarial thinking. They just move one slice of bugs from runtime to compile time and make refactors safer.
In hindsight I should have positioned types/ADTs as one layer in the reliability toolbox, not the toolbox.