New chapter: Languages with tests

content/books/things-i-learnt/_index.md

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 	* [Tests Make Better APIs](tests-apis)
 	* [Make Tests That You Know How To Run on the Command line](tests-in-the-command-line)
 	* [Be Ready To Throw Your Code Away](throw-away)
+	* [Good Languages Come With Tests](languages-tests)

content/books/things-i-learnt/languages-tests/index.md

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+title = "Things I Learnt The Hard Way - Good Languages Come With Tests"
+date = 2019-06-20
+
+[taxonomies]
+tags = ["en-au", "books", "things i learnt", "programming languages", "tests"]
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+
+You can be sure that if a language brings a testing framework -- even minimal
+-- in its standard library, the ecosystem around it will have better tests
+than a language that doesn't carry a testing framework, no matter how good the
+external testing frameworks for the language are.
+
+<!-- more -->
+
+The reason is kinda obvious on this one: When the language itself brings a
+testing framework, it reduces the friction for people to start writing tests,
+and that includes the authors of the language itself and the community.
+
+Sure, better frameworks may come along, and languages that don't have a
+testing framework in their standard library may have options with better
+support and easier access but, again, when they are there from the start, the
+start is better and the final result is better.
+
+{{ chapters(prev_chapter_link="/books/things-i-learnt/throw-away", prev_chapter_title="Be Ready To Throw Your Code Away") }}

content/books/things-i-learnt/throw-away/index.md

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 ... unless you focus mostly on [integration
 tests](/books/things-i-learnt/integration-tests).
 
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