alt Hacker NewsCan you point to it? That doesn't sound like "the language forced all this extra baggage on it due to 'safety'" so much as the developers kept adding functions to the function without rethinking if and how they should.
Can you point to it? That doesn't sound like "the language forced all this extra baggage on it due to 'safety'" so much as the developers kept adding functions to the function without rethinking if and how they should.
My point was not about the safety of the code, it was about the expressiveness, which is also what the comment I replied to was about. If the parameter has an explicit type (instead of no type, as is normal in Ruby, or `void*`, which is the C equivalent), it forces the developer to consider the design of the function, instead taking the path of least resistance because they're inexperienced/incompetent/a large language model/burnt-out to the point where even the thought of opening the file makes them feel the not-anxiety of burnout/<insert reason here>.