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		erfgh on Oct 3, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Diminishing returns of static typing > This is insane in Python/C/Ruby. It's only insane if you don't have test cases with good coverage, in which case you are very-very-very screwed, statically typed or not.

rndmio on Oct 3, 2017 [–]

Testing is not the answer to the problem of knowing if I refactored everywhere necessary. In a statically typed language I don't even have to worry about what do I do if my function is passed a var of the wrong type, it won't compile.

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