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Luckily these aren't exclusive! You can do all of those things with a strong type system as well, and get the benefits of all of them.


100%. Types don’t replace fuzzing, property tests, chaos, or adversarial thinking. They just move one slice of bugs from runtime to compile time and make refactors safer.

In hindsight I should have positioned types/ADTs as one layer in the reliability toolbox, not the toolbox.




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