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Type checking is a symptom, not a solution

(programmingsimplicity.substack.com)
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Ygg2 ◴[] No.45141823[source]
> electronics engineers routinely design systems with millions of components, intricate timing relationships, and complex interactions between subsystems. Yet they don’t rely on anything analogous to our type checkers.

Disclaimer: not hardware engineer.

However as a junior in college we had several classes using VHDL and later Verilog. They have types. They are used to simulate design before committing it to board.

I would be surprised people brute force it often.

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1. aurumque ◴[] No.45142129[source]
Right. Try building thousands of transistors without rigorous EDA and basic checking in VHDL. This article is such a bad take.