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by MayorMonty 2241 days ago
The first point is the most appealing to my brain at least. Type inference is a really useful feature (when paired with a nice IDE) and having a single standardized prefix to declare variables regardless of what type it is can help the mental model. This is especially true with more complex non-obvious types, where you may not know exactly what type you have without the hint from your environment