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Really cute approach to reporting type errors: when there's a type error, show an example of a runtime error that the type check has prevented! Data-Driven Techniques for Type Error Diagnosis https://escholarship.org/uc/item/59s4h4pv

Bootstrapping a language can be immensely satisfying. I've added the ability to define stub types in the Garden stdlib and suddenly I don't need to special-case Int or String! They're just normal type declarations.

Playing with optional type signatures in Python, I realise that the return type is the most important to me. I'd much rather have a function with only a return type instead of a function with only parameter types. It's often quick to add too.