> “ The point of the article is to point out that languages, frameworks, or apis that expect a level of discipline to write well are inferior to ones that don't expect discipline out of its coders.”
I think this is what the parent comment that you responded to is saying is totally bogus.
A good example is Python. In my company, the teams using Python run circles around the teams using C++ and Java. The Python teams ship higher quality stuff that is both more reliable (it turns out that lack of a compiler for various static checks not only doesn’t make anything more reliable, but also slows things down unreasonably on large code bases), and easier to modify and adapt to changing requirements.
I think this is what the parent comment that you responded to is saying is totally bogus.
A good example is Python. In my company, the teams using Python run circles around the teams using C++ and Java. The Python teams ship higher quality stuff that is both more reliable (it turns out that lack of a compiler for various static checks not only doesn’t make anything more reliable, but also slows things down unreasonably on large code bases), and easier to modify and adapt to changing requirements.