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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth by goto11 on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @09:20AM (#28615963)
I'm sure Elm is a great language, but thinking it eliminates runtime errors is ridiculous. Of course it might eliminate exceptions, but exceptions are not errors, rather they are (sometimes) signals than an error have happened.
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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth by cies on Wednesday September 22, 2021 @03:18PM (#28620529)
Yes, this only holds for some definition of errors. Run time program errors due to type mismatch, nulls and exceptions are non-existant.

Pretty cool!

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Re:Busting the 10x software engineer myth by goto11 on Thursday September 23, 2021 @03:44AM (#28626330)
The question is, why was these run time error not caught by unit tests? Probably because there wasn't any tests - which means the code likely have numerous logical errors. Static typing is great, but it will not prevent against logical errors. So without testing you will have bugs in any language you rewrite in.
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