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		Rumudiez 60 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The bloat of edge-case first libraries Yep, I’ve seen this in Swift with a dozen overloads for functions and class initializers to support umpteen similar, but different, types as input. Sloppy schema design reveals itself in combinatorial explosions of type conversions

quotemstr 60 days ago [–]

Yes. I don't understand why HN reacts with such froth to the suggestion that this problem runs deeper than type systems.

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