My general feeling is that these un-features take things away, and what they purport to provide in exchange is fewer bugs by virtue of being able to check certain constraints at ‘compile time’.
I’m all for taking things away, but I personally want more in exchange. For example, if you’re going to give me immutable or const declarations, give me lazy evaluation as part of the bargain.
So I’m not opposed to taking things away, I am just optimistic that we can provide a lot more value than ‘constraints’ in exchange. And if we aren’t going to provide more value, I think we’re setting our sights too low.
I’m all for taking things away, but I personally want more in exchange. For example, if you’re going to give me immutable or const declarations, give me lazy evaluation as part of the bargain.
So I’m not opposed to taking things away, I am just optimistic that we can provide a lot more value than ‘constraints’ in exchange. And if we aren’t going to provide more value, I think we’re setting our sights too low.