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by rstat1 920 days ago
>Because superfluous type checker incantations are, aside from breaking up flow of thought when writing code, annoying visual noise when reading it.

I disagree. Implicit typing for the most part makes things harder read. The less I have guess about what type something is the better. I never use stuff like "var" or "auto", unless forced to for this very reason.