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		BurningFrog on Nov 8, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Parse, Don’t Validate To me, unit tests replaces almost all I got from type safety. And that's just a side effect even!

meithecatte on Nov 8, 2019 [–]

Tests can only prove the presence of bugs, not their absence.

BurningFrog on Nov 8, 2019 | [–]

That's also true of type safety, and every other technique...

meithecatte on Nov 9, 2019 | | [–]

Not if you take into account the bug classes the technique intends to eliminate.

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