[rastrian]

Agree, I didn’t give testing enough space. A proper treatment would’ve doubled the post, so I’m writing a separate follow-up on testing.

Pure functions/immutability help a lot because tests become representative and cheap. I’d only push back on “tests of all equivalent scenarios” being sufficient, the space explodes and many real failures live at I/O/concurrency/distributed boundaries. My intended claim is that FP/ADTs/types reduce the state space and improve the ROI of tests, not replace them.