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by dllthomas 3530 days ago
> there is higher cognitive overhead

In my experience, the opposite is the case. If I can offload some checks to my tooling, I don't have to be constantly performing them mentally. And with type inference at a repl, I can ask about the shape of things that can't possibly run yet (though I don't think I get that with C#).