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Do you have any experience with the inverse statement? That is, have you had a good experience with optional types in an enterprise context?

I'm curious how many runtime errors persist due to the optionality of the type system. Perhaps code standards requiring all "library" code to be typed would be a good balance.




Just kind of.

Most enterprise customers I have worked with, favour dynamic languages just for scripting tasks, while using static typed ones for the large scale projects.

By large scale, I mean, projects with at least three development sites, at least 30 developers, all the different set of skills. With lots of attrition.

The only time I saw it working, was in a project done with TCL, which lacks optional types, but everyone on team was a top developer, the team was small, and located on the same open space. So startup world, not enterprise.




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