[alpaca128]

I can remember that in the beginning it felt cumbersome to me because I wasn't all too familiar with that language's type system and so I had all kinds of errors thrown at me.

But it's something you just have to get used to, and now that I understand it much better I feel more productive and have more confidence in my code. And the communication aspect is definitely a great help too. No handwritten documentation can be this consistent, completely independent of who touched the code (though to be fair, it's still difficult to get the naming right).

I can't imagine the people calling it a waste of time got over the hump in the beginning. To me it's obviously a timesaver. It does a tedious, difficult (for humans) task and does it quickly & with perfect accuracy. Beforehand worrying about all the type signatures and interfaces felt like 4D Sudoku across various modules, now I can concentrate on the interesting parts.