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by whizzter 265 days ago
That's because many do small things that don't really need it, sure there are some people doing larger stuff and are happy to be the sole maintainer of a codebase or replace the language types with unit-test type checks.

And I think they can be correct for rejecting it, banging out a small useful project (preferably below 1000 loc) flows much faster if you just build code doing things rather than start annotating (that quickly can be come a mind-sinkhole of naming decisions that interrupts a building flow).

However, even less complex 500 loc+ programs without typing can become a pita to read after the fact and approaching 1kloc it can become a major headache to pick up again.

Basically, can't beat speed of going nude, but size+complexity is always an exponential factor in how hard continuing and/or resuming a project is.