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Re:Problems with TypeScript by nocommentx on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @01:39PM (#22057017)
they mention a time tax of 262 seconds median for TS annotations for their set of 400 bugs. almost 4.5 minutes. so idk, there seems to be some math missing in this paper about the actual trade offs. so maybe you get a 15% improvement in "detectable" bugs found, at a 13.3% time cost (60 minutes /4.5 minutes) per hour of work. worth it...? are your devs expensive? more expensive than QA.
Re:Problems with TypeScript by eyelidlessness on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @05:41PM (#22059625)
Types are easier to read, reason about and maintain than tests, particularly if it's QA writing the tests instead of engineers.