> I think Rich Hickey has a point that bugs like this almost certain get caught by running the program.
That is certainly correct... but that doesn't make it a good thing. One wants to catch bugs before the program is running, not after.
That is certainly correct... but that doesn't make it a good thing. One wants to catch bugs before the program is running, not after.
But I don’t think we are engineers. Software dev isn’t like engineering. You can’t change the structure of a bridge after it has been built by deploying code to prod in a minute. Software dev is just software dev, it’s not engineering or science. It has some parallels with craftsmanship, but it’s unique.