The distracting temptations of beautiful strongly-typed languages

(written by lawrence krubner, however indented passages are often quotes). You can contact lawrence at: lawrence@krubner.com, or follow me on Twitter.

Interesting:

‘There’s something very seductive about languages like Rust or Scala or Haskell or even C++. These languages whisper in our ears “you are brilliant and here’s a blank canvas where you can design the most perfect abstraction the world has ever seen.’

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    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17904580
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