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> like a win to the kind of developer who makes a lot of type errors Or just to the developer that likes to offload that cognitive load to their tools. Why ho
by david422 5y ago
> like a win to the kind of developer who makes a lot of type errors
Or just to the developer that likes to offload that cognitive load to their tools.
Why hold that in my head when the IDE can keep track of it for me? Why memorize every single attribute name when the IDE can autocomplete it for me? etc.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoThis is about manually-written type annotations. About as far as can be from "the IDE keeping track of it for you".
- david422 5y agoYou manually write the type annotation, and then the IDE keeps track of the rest. Instead keeping track of the type annotation in your head, and then also keeping track of the rest of the stuff in your head too.