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I agree. The benefits of static typing (catching trivial errors, documentation) usually do not outweigh the costs. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/dynamic-

• jstimpfle 10y ago
  Watched the whole thing. Very articulate speaker, thanks! Btw. going through your older posts > Besides immutability, what are the advantages of using namedtuples instead of dicts? fixed attributes. And they are ordered! :-) Makes sets / db-style programming so much simpler: for user, name, account in users: ... You can do that with conventional tuples as well, but they can't match the introspectability and the value for documentation.