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beders on Sept 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Noric-bot – A bot to stress-test text-bas...

> Sophisticated type systems are money in the bank.

You better have money in the bank to allow for all the refactoring you will be doing once you realize your data model needs to change in unforeseen ways ;)

mruts on Sept 13, 2019 | [–]

That's going to be harder in a dynamic language. In fact, sophisticated type systems are supposed to (and do) solve these problems very elegantly.

hderms on Sept 13, 2019 | [–]

why would that be any easier in a dynamically typed language?

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