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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This was always the trade-off of dynamic languages. You have to write a lot more unit tests to prove basic correctness, but you can move quickly at first if you’re not bothered about that.

[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

I feel like this has somewhat shifted in recent years. Due to type-aware IDEs/editors being pretty much universal now, having types speeds you up in that initial phase, too. And type inference eliminates much of the inertia, too.