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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.228s | source
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fergie ◴[05 Feb 25 12:35 UTC] No.42947617[source]▶
> Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels

I'm 30 years in now, and on balance, whilst they have clear advantages, I'm still not convinced that typed languages are essential, particularly for low level or module programming.

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1. pjc50 ◴[05 Feb 25 13:03 UTC] No.42947917[source]▶
Unless you can happily deal with '"four" + 1' your language is typed. The question is whether you want type errors reported upfront or you have to wait to find them at runtime (necessitating high test coverage).

One of these days I'd like to see a "typed assembler". It still matters what the contents of registers mean, even if they all look the same to the instruction set.