On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 13:21:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
They see more value in unit
tests than types, both overall and as a debugging aid. Fur-
thermore, how features are presented strongly influences
developer feelings about them, such as prioritizing class in-
terfaces much higher than static types
Stop the world, I want to get out!
"We found that developers gener-
ally value expressiveness and speed of development over
language-enforced correctness."
I'll never understand why typing is regarded as such a big effort
that slows down development. The terrible yoke of typing!
