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Software development topics I've changed my mind on

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873 points belter | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 09:50 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source
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Kototama ◴[05 Feb 25 11:24 UTC] No.42947000[source]▶
> Typed languages are essential on teams with mixed experience levels

I like this one because it puts this endless dilemma in a human context. Most discussions are technical (static typing ease refactoring and safety, dynamic typing is easier to learn and better for interactive programming etc.) and ignore the users, the programmers.

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1. loxs ◴[05 Feb 25 18:28 UTC] No.42952947[source]▶
Even when I am alone, I have "mixed experience levels", for example I can learn something niche, write some algorithm that works in that, then 2 years later I may have forgotten it. Types are essential for me.