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> Do we really want to have worse tools, just because some people are writing bad code?

People tend to write bad code. It's a fact of life. Tools forcing people who write bad code to write better code can't be worse tools by definition. They are better tools.

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The fundamental issue is that humans contrary to machines will never know for sure whether whatever they do write is in fact correct code. One can think they are writing good and readable code, but that doesn't mean anything if the code is incorrect. And if you write lots of boilerplate that means more possible bugs. That's also why no one sane writes assembly (or increasingly these days C) unless they have to. We generally prefer more complex languages which put a constraint on the amount of possible bugs.

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