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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by _dain_ on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:08PM (#37769247)
why can't I write it in a statically-typed language and also write end-to-end tests?

also it's pretty ridiculous to say "static type systems are handholding" and then say the remedy is to write your code with AI ..

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by ActorNightly on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @02:54PM (#37769897)
You can, but the reason you do this in practice is because the static typing languages are often not sufficient or strong enough. And if you are writing tests, you may as well do everything through testing and focus on rapid dev rather than worrying about types.
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