off-topic 2026-10-05

Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-10-05T17:06:29.129379Z

probably one of the guys least interested in Clojure lol ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWTWkYbcWU0

Alex Miller (Clojure team) 2026-10-05T17:08:56.848619Z

^^ a talk in which it is asserted that not using static types is unethical, amongst other things :)

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I recall seeing another contentious thread today regarding ethics in software development

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Forgive me, Father, for I have type-casted an Object.

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He's getting tons of coal for Christmas

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From that talk above: "... we had so many crappy, crappy, crappy Ruby developers that are now crappy, crappy, crappy Clojure developers..."

Maybe... Not...

I remember being knee deep in some PECS stuff wrt. Java generics when I got the feeling that sometimes solving static type system issues feels like as if someone handed you a sudoku to solve every 10 minutes. Sure, I can solve it but it often felt difficult to justify the time spent doing that instead of actually achieving what I originally wanted to do.