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by yCombLinks 1132 days ago
If you already have an existing, functioning codebase, adding types is not saving you time (right now). It's akin to adding a lot of unit tests. You gain time later, and often indirectly from others not making mistakes your types would prevent.
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Ample time passed, we added more after we were already on TS, and it wasn't helping. In fact it was a constant burden on new code.
Alright, good luck out there. I strongly prefer types