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I'm sure for many people this cost is reversed and they are wasting time in dynamic language for looking up methods or fixing bugs that would not exist in typed

• mattmanser 8y ago
  If I could give this comment a year's worth of up-votes I would. Dynamic languages slow me down. I have a terrible memory when it comes to method syntax, for example I would still have to look up Javascript's substring syntax every single time even though I have worked with JS for like 12 years. Static typing's ability to supercharge autocomplete is a massive time boost for me.
  • skohan 8y ago
    Yes JS is probably the most egregious. After having transitioned mostly to statically-typed languages, it seems positively backwards not to have the types, or even number of arguments specified as part of the signature to a function. I have even had to dig through the source of a library when the author has neglected to document an API well.