4 ms·

Not to argue. 9K is comparatively small.

• Groxx 16y ago
  As compared to a lot of commercial products, absolutely. But it was still a significantly larger project than I'd attempted before, and I probably ended up writing a good 30k or 40k through the whole time (attempting lots of new things). It's also still over 10x larger than the .Net project with which I've been fighting. And given my patterns of code, I see no reason why making my previous project 10x larger would have any more difficulties with typing than I had before. In a few years of Ruby coding, I can only recall a few immediately-identified type problems. Static typing seems to me to cost significantly more than its value.
• gaius 16y ago
  You can get a lot done in 9 kLOC Ruby/Python/etc. Possibly 10x what you could get done in as much Java.