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Is this a Nut? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by sjmarf to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm sorry to hear that. I think at one point in my past, about half my job was tracking down nil dereference errors in Ruby. And probably a quarter was writing tests for things a good type system would catch at compile time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

And I'm sorry to hear about that Ruby experience. I authored one of the Ruby stdlibs, and similar issues with the language, and the inevitable encroachment of Rails into every project, eventually drove me away from it.

I was, however, excluding interpreted languages from my comparison. Dynamically typed languages are a different matter and can't hope to be any kind of safe - but that's not the game where they excel.