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I mean the error should say "Whoever wrote this software made a serious mistake that caused it to crash." That's fairly useful imo.
How is that useful? Because if your answer is “I boycott devs that have type errors”, I got bad news for you. Unless you’re working on mission critical systems, like pace makers, airplanes, spacecraft, financial systems, etc, sinking the necessary engineering time to 100% prevent those kinds of errors is a bad business decision.
An error message should either be instructions for the user, or something they copy-paste into a bug report (or equivalent). That’s it.
not really. to me, at least, the fact that someone made a mistake at some point is kinda implied.