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Re:Dependent Haskell Is the Future (2018) by jstimpfle on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:53AM (#20715720)
A software artifact that has a very specific type usually also needs to be very specific in terms of its required preconditions. Which puts a significant burden on the user of that artifact. And now that user probably requires its own additional preconditions to be able to conform. And so on.

I don't know, maybe there is a good way of structuring the software to avoid this effect (I'm not extremely invested in type systems), but maybe it's just a lot of additional pain on top -- too much perceived pain for people who can barely make their software "seems to work".

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