Article on programming language adoption (x-post from /r/programming)

[Chris]

On Thursday, 1 August 2013 at 13:21:23 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> They see more value in unit
> tests than types, both overall and as a debugging aid. Fur-
> thermore, how features are presented strongly influences
> developer feelings about them, such as prioritizing class in-
> terfaces much higher than static types
>
> Stop the world, I want to get out!

"We found that developers gener-
ally value expressiveness and speed of development over
language-enforced correctness."

I'll never understand why typing is regarded as such a big effort 
that slows down development. The terrible yoke of typing!