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by ModernMech 965 days ago
Yes but there’s a difference in who feels the pain. Compile time pain is felt by devs, who have the constitution and ability to fix such issues. Runtime pain is felt by users and can result in data loss and security issues in the wild, and is harder to debug.

One kind of pain has a bigger blast radius than the other. I prefer compile time pain to runtime pain.