Let's say your code is making some calls and gets back an object. Can you list all the important methods on that object from the top of your head? With a static

Let's say your code is making some calls and gets back an object. Can you list all the important methods on that object from the top of your head? With a statically typed language IDE can always do that for you That's really an issue with class-based programming, where you have lots of ad-hoc methods, you have identified one of the complexity it brings. You need the bloaty IDE to make that problem bearable to code in, because as you said, who is going to remember all that crap?, but it doesn't make the problem/complexity of the system go away.