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If you just don’t need the assurances, that seems true.

In my world, anything the type system doesn’t do for me, I must do myself in unit tests.

It’s actually possible to learn a type system and get good/fast at it. But typing out all those goddamn test cases never gets any easier, and updating them when the code changes is a nightmare.




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