I think that needless compiler errors is an interesting point that isn&#x27;t discussed often, so that at least is an interesting point.<p>We have those productivity enhancers because the language makes it easy to make a mistake there. Ideally we would want to eliminate those mistakes without the syntactic headache.<p>Although obviously how to do that is a complex exercise, I do think that saying &quot;code bloat is bad&quot; even against &quot;bugs are worse&quot; can provide interesting insights into what we really want from languages.