His "argument" for strict typing on the Lex Fridman podcast was also that it's mostly if you have "hundreds or (of?) thousands of engineers collaborating", which "strictly" puts his opinion in the bin in my case. I have absolutely, positively become more productive as a single developer due to strict typing. Parsing various kinds of binary data was enough to convince me. A.k.a. each to their own. On the whole, Elixir and BEAM seem really cool though, and there's work being done on typing, as well as the new Gleam language.
Note: I've not yet done any serious web-development, mostly command line tools, which I realise is not DHH's main focus.
Note: I've not yet done any serious web-development, mostly command line tools, which I realise is not DHH's main focus.