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by scarface74 2811 days ago
Yes, but with Java, a good IDE can answer questions like:

- Where is this method being used? - If I delete or change this method will anything break? ....
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WaxProlix 2811 days ago
Sure, and that's true and if I were to set out to do a large service now I'd use something with typing. My last few net-new 10k+ loc projects were all typescript and I'll probably stick with that approach for a while.

The main issues with large codebases are often not feature-based but rather maintenance and operational overhead related: undiscoverability, config hell, dependency hell, and scaling issues - and typing helps a little bit with one of those.

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kiaulen 2811 days ago
With python, a good IDE should be able to find usages.

If you delete a method that has usages without searching for them, you're asking for trouble. Sure it's not a compilation error in python, but compilation can only show that the method is missing, not that changes are guaranteed to work.

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scarface74 2811 days ago
With R#, any method that is not referenced is gray and you can choose to display a warning.

If I delete a method, I automatically get a big red dot in the corner showing compilation errors (without compiling).

If I change a type from string to int in both my method and method signature, it automatically tells me every place that would break.

How do you find usages in a provable correct way in a dynamic language?

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