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• pjmlp 14y ago
  Based on my experience yes. I work in enterprise projects done in multi-site context context, usually with teams that encompass more than 30 developers with multiple levels of experience. Depending on the customer, sometimes it is very hard to force developers to write unit tests. If the customer does not care about them, the product manager will not enforce them. Additionally given the lack of experiences of the junior developers, always chosen because they are cheaper to the customer, unit tests tend to be badly written. So with static typing one has at least a guarantee that the product compiles and might eventually even run. With dynamic typing and lack of tests, you can spend days getting the product back into a runnable state.