Diminishing returns of static typing

Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by ubernostrum on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:05PM (#15386254)

I think the bigger idea is that people who've never actually written serious code in a dynamically-typed language assume that people who do always write a bunch of extra unit tests to assert correct types, assert behavior on incorrect types, etc. etc., and that programs crashing due to type errors is a super frequent occurrence.

None of those things are true.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by tome on Monday October 02, 2017 @05:01PM (#15387919)

And yet there are dynamic language proponents in this very subthread suggesting that's exactly what everyone should do.

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