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by majjgepolja 1776 days ago
The main advantage of typing is, for me, IDE showing errors as you type and better autocomplete, and they serve as documentation also (Of course you should read docs but types are helpful as quick reminder.)

Maybe I am just more absent minded than most dynamic programmers, but live IDE diagnostics and autocomplete are very important for me.
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kamaal 1775 days ago
Don't we have support for most of this in language plugins for Python in vscode et al, already?
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majjgepolja 1773 days ago
It's not as accurate or satisfactory in my experience. For example I get errors after running in python, which could be detected in statically typed languages while typing in IDE. Autocomplete is also less than optimal. As for autocomplete intellij IDEs > LSPs for typed languages > Untyped languages IME.
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