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munksbeertoday at 8:08 AM1 replyview on HN

>My experience is that there's a correlation between powerful type systems and the property that once your program compiles, it's correct. Compiles == correct is rarely true in C or JavaScript. It's often true in Haskell and Rust.

I find this staggeringly hard to believe. Most bugs are logic errors. How does Rust or Haskell prevent these?


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yakshaving_jgttoday at 10:43 AM

> Most bugs are logic errors.

Are they? IME most bugs are type errors.

Or rather, IME most bugs are logic errors only because I've excluded the possibility of type errors by using a sophisticated type system.