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by fsloth 2495 days ago
Thanks so much! This was exactly the sort of industrial benchmark I was after.

Am I correct in summarizing your experience as:

The possible encumbrance caused by types at prototyping phase is paid back several times when refactoring a production codebase?

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Hmm, I think it's more that types make it possible to refactor without fear, both at the prototyping phase (when you refactor so much, I had 800 lines of python before that that I was afraid to touch) and later.