Re:Show HN: Aviary.sh – A tiny Bash alternative to Ansible
by pizza234 on Friday July 03, 2020 @08:51AM
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The concept of "guard against runtime errors" doesn't make much sense.
Technically speaking, even languages with strong safeguards (random examples: Golang, Rust) can't "guard against runtime errors", because it's possible to panic a program by performing an out-of-bounds array access (which classifies as "runtime error" in a very strict sense).
A concept that makes sense is the amount of safeguards provided by a language (/type system), however, this depends entirely on the use case; it's an intentional choice of the developer.
Technically speaking, even languages with strong safeguards (random examples: Golang, Rust) can't "guard against runtime errors", because it's possible to panic a program by performing an out-of-bounds array access (which classifies as "runtime error" in a very strict sense).
A concept that makes sense is the amount of safeguards provided by a language (/type system), however, this depends entirely on the use case; it's an intentional choice of the developer.