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by enw 1249 days ago
If something's too easy to misuse, it's bad design.
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Ease to use and ease to misuse usually come hand in hand.

If we had very clear and static requirements I’d see languages/tools with more safeguards, fool proofing, optimized design etc. But we’ll never have that for configuration languages, and when aiming for flexibility you have to trust people to not shoot their own feet.