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devinyesterday at 4:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

> No one claims that good type systems prevent buggy software. But, they do seem to improve programmer productivity.

They really don’t. How did you arrive at such a conclusion?


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Permikyesterday at 5:10 AM

Not that I can answer for OP but as a personal anecdote; I've never been more productive than writing in Rust, it's a goddamn delight. Every codebase feels like it would've been my own and you can get to speed from 0 to 100 in no time.

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mplewisyesterday at 5:06 AM

Through empirical evidence? Do you think that the vast majority of software devs moved to typing for no reason?

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