> By unsafe I mean providing enough of footguns to shoot yourself in the foot.
Just to play on the comparison: would you say that a gun is a "dangerously unsafe tool"? I would tend to think that guns have been very well optimized over time, and I don't know of a gun design that prevents me from shooting myself in the foot. Actually that would be a limitation of the gun.
But we all agree that people who use guns need to learn how to use them properly. Why doesn't this apply to programming languages? How did we as an industry end up in a place where it's considered the norm that developers don't really know what they are doing and need some kind of child safety in order to not hurt themselves?
