[mlthoughts2018]

I have not found my preferences to be significantly different from my peers. I work mostly on large codebases all in Python with occasional compiled extension modules. The lack of compile-time verification in Python has not affected my work in the manner you mention about JavaScript. If anything, not waiting for long compile times (e.g. like in Scala which I also occasionally work in) improves my productivity and there are frankly just no serious classes of errors that get caught by the compiler in a time-saving way compared with low effort unit tests in Python.

I think the rise of bloated IDEs is a more modern phenomenon, popular with younger developers who were trained on those tools and haven’t invested time yet to learn there’s a much better way to work.