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2017-10-31
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borkdude10:10:12

@roberto Clojure is not a language suitable for making impossible states impossible without using run time validations.

roberto13:10:15

yeah, I don’t like doing certain checks at runtime, I prefer the compiler tell me when I’m doing something wrong. I’ve been bitten by some bugs in production that could have been avoided with the compiler’s help.

roberto13:10:59

having said that, I am enjoying Typescript these days, seems to provide a good balance b/w typing and some dynamism.

borkdude13:10:45

@roberto well, the uniontypes thing does tell you at it compile time