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by throwaway2037 737 days ago

    > But then I saw the downside: these type-happy programmers almost never tested anything.
To clarify: Are you saying they came to trust the compiler so much that they stopped doing local tests? If yes, this is an interesting point. When I toggle between Python and Java, I find the Java compiler has similar impact on me, as Python makes me so paranoid about runtime errors due to syntax.