On Saturday, 25 July 2015 at 13:37:15 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 7/24/15 6:12 PM, deadalnix wrote:
The most intriguing part of this conversation is that the
argument made
about unitests and complexity are the very same than for
dynamic vs
strong typing (and there is hard data that strong typing is
better).
No, that's not the case at all. There is a distinction: in
dynamic typing the error is deferred to run time, in this
discussion the error is only deferred to instantiation time. --
Andrei
Runtime errors are a usability problem for users and
maintianability problem for developers. Instatiation time errors
are a maintianability problem for library authors and a usability
problem for developers. I would argue that the latter is better
than the former, but the poor developer experience of using
Phobos is what made me move away from D a couple of years ago.
