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that it aids my understanding and helps in navigating the program Static typing reduces bugs because it aids your understanding.

• cloogshicer 4y ago
  Not necessarily. This increased ease of understanding could also simply result in faster development speed - so same number of bugs, but more features in less time. Not sure though.
  • lolinder 4y ago
    So fewer bugs per feature. Assuming that the total number of features required is the same either way, by the end you're still left with fewer bugs.
• silisili 4y ago
  Well, it also fails to compile. Which to me is better than blowing up at runtime, or worse, not blowing up but giving weird results.
  • ghettoimp 4y ago
    This is a superpower during refactoring.