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Yes there will still be fear sometimes, but the point of the compiler is to help people to be fearless sometimes.

The halting problem does not need to be solved, since no program in practice runs forever. In some of the environments like C we don't have a way to specify finite things, where cases would be enumerable and safety guaranteed. To be fearless sometimes greatly reduces the mental workload of programmers and people who read other people's code.




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