[yakshaving_jgt]

It's the latter argument that did it for me. I never again want to work primarily with a technology that doesn't have encapsulation of optional types. It's just such an uninteresting problem to have to continuously suffer from.

[joshlemer]

You may have seen it already but Rich Hickey the creator of Clojure had a great talk about this https://youtu.be/YR5WdGrpoug

[yakshaving_jgt]

I’ve seen a few of his talks, but I do not accept his position on types more generally. I wrote a rebuttal to a similar talk he gave a few years ago.

https://jezenthomas.com/rich-hickey-doesnt-know-types/

[amatecha]

Huh, good post, thanks. What are you usually working with, Haskell? Or I saw Elm mentioned on your blog. I've been considering learning Clojure as something new to help broaden my skills (currently using TypeScript in my day-to-day and some noob-level knowledge of Haskell). Your post has me reconsidering, haha >_>

[yakshaving_jgt]

Yes, I mostly work with Haskell. I'm the CTO at Supercede and our project is currently ~100,000 lines of Haskell code.

I think every developer ought to at least learn Elm. Being forced to think so lucidly about the types and effects of your systems is unreasonably effective, and I think it shapes the way you then write code in other languages.