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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by krzat on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:42AM (#19133166)
I'm sure for many people this cost is reversed and they are wasting time in dynamic language for looking up methods or fixing bugs that would not exist in typed code.
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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by mattmanser on Monday February 11, 2019 @04:49AM (#19133194)
If I could give this comment a year's worth of up-votes I would.

Dynamic languages slow me down.

I have a terrible memory when it comes to method syntax, for example I would still have to look up Javascript's substring syntax every single time even though I have worked with JS for like 12 years.

Static typing's ability to supercharge autocomplete is a massive time boost for me.

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Re:38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using ... by skohan on Monday February 11, 2019 @10:44AM (#19135200)
Yes JS is probably the most egregious. After having transitioned mostly to statically-typed languages, it seems positively backwards not to have the types, or even number of arguments specified as part of the signature to a function. I have even had to dig through the source of a library when the author has neglected to document an API well.
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