Comments by "Gilad Barlev" (@GSBarlev) on "how to never write bug" video.

  1. Jetbrains products are incredibly overzealous by default, though, and they're getting worse. I haven't tried PHPStorm, but with both Pycharm and IDEA I'll way too often miss real typos and valid warnings in the sea of spell-checked variable names and incorrect type inferences (that pass other linters just fine).
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  2. I first heard about functional programming from a joke in xkcd: "Code written in Haskell is guaranteed to have no side effects" / "...because no one will ever run it?" Nowadays, I defer execution like I'm the California penal system and am less willing to give things state than a Republican voting on DC or Puerto Rico.
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  3. A few years ago I was watching my then-three-year-old while trying to get some work done. Kid goes, "There's a bug!" and I mutter instinctively "not a bug, it's a feature." Pause. Kid replies, "There's a feature crawling on the wall." Born PM, that nugget.
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  4. +1 for static analysis. mypy enforced via pre-commit has saved my bacon more times than I can count.
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