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by voihannena 327 days ago
I've also noticed that a strong type system and things like immutability have worked tremendously well for minimizing the amount bugs. They can't necessarily help with business rules but a compiler can definitely clear out all the "stupid" bugs.
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Dealing with a 15-year old legacy codebase with strong types: awful but manageable. Without: not a chance.