>Rather, better defaults in web and SQL frameworks, even in a dynamic language, would get you most of the way there.
We’ve had 20+ years of building websites, and either we have sane defaults by now but they’re not enough, or we still don’t have sane defaults in our web frameworks.
Either way, that this problem persists given the damage it’s enabling, suggests we haven’t addressed the root cause yet. Web development is still a tarpit, which strong type systems can mitigate in unique ways.
We’ve had 20+ years of building websites, and either we have sane defaults by now but they’re not enough, or we still don’t have sane defaults in our web frameworks.
Either way, that this problem persists given the damage it’s enabling, suggests we haven’t addressed the root cause yet. Web development is still a tarpit, which strong type systems can mitigate in unique ways.