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The sense of security is provided by a good test suite (which you still need) plus SBCL type annotations.


I've never managed to achieve that (the comparable sense of security), which may be on me.

Out of interest, have you worked in one of these typed languages -- Haskell, Elm, maybe OCaml (haven't tried it), Idris, Rust? I think they feel very different in this axis compared to C/C++/Objective-C/Java. Not necessarily better (I am still reminded of the term "bondage-and-discipline language" from the Jargon File[1]), but different.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/B/bondage-and-discipline-lan...




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