Things I've Changed My Mind About
Strong opinions, held for years, quietly abandoned. This is a list of things I used to believe and don’t anymore. Compiled languages are safer than interpreted ones I came up writing Java, and Java taught me that correctness was the compiler’s job. If it built, it was probably right; if it didn’t, the compiler told me where I’d gone wrong. That felt like safety. It took me years to notice it was mostly a crutch, as I learned to lean on the toolchain when I didn’t know the language well enough to reason in the language itself. ...