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Re:Assorted Thoughts on Zig and Rust by smiths1999 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:21AM (#24837590)
I don't disagree, but this goes both ways (and I typically only see one side of this argument put forward). They also allow the person who designed the types to make the types so complex that the average user cannot understand what is going on. You may argue "well that person has no business looking at the code" but sometimes you have to look into other people's code when you are debugging an issue.

No doubt type systems can allow you to write safer, more robust code. But they can also allow you to introduce new risks to your codebase, one of which is difficult to read/understand code.

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