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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by stratigos on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:17AM (#37765550)
Youre missing the perspective of a business owner and operator that has to hire many people with diverse patterns of thoughts and beliefs who will most likely work for their organization for less than 24 months.
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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by AlanYx on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @10:26AM (#37765703)
If you have a considerable amount of staff turnover, strong typing is a godsend for a large codebase.

Having an order of magnitude more unit tests is another option, but that undermines the alleged "less code" benefit of weak typing.

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