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by hardwaregeek 1824 days ago
Agreed. It's like saying "oh well I just fly the airplane really carefully". A lot of codebases eclipse the point where one person can understand the whole system. Testing, static analysis and tooling are what allows us to keep the plane flying.
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mixmastamyk 1824 days ago
Agreed with the end of your post. However, the top post approaches religious dogma. I argue against that even if one has some good points.
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kortex 1823 days ago
> However, the top post approaches religious dogma.

I don't deny it. Join the cult of Static Python. We have cookies! And lower stress levels!

I usually wrap that spiel with my caveat "this depends greatly on your neurotype, style, environment, and other things." I have ADHD and my brain struggles with keeping bits of state in memory, so having to remember the type of every variable without my IDE tracking it for me is a huge performance drain.

However, I would contend even if your neurotype supported that mental workflow... it isn't actually better. Humans on average can handle 7 +/- 2 "pieces" of information in focus. Why spend any of your precious half-dozen pieces of salient consciousness on something a machine is really good at doing?

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mixmastamyk 1822 days ago
Because it adds a lot of work that many projects don't need. Read wpietri's post on how candidates who write static get half as much accomplished in an interview.

Also since the tools are immature and bolted on afterward in Python, I think it's even a bit worse than it would be in something decent like C#.

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