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		keyle on March 4, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What made you change your mind about a pro... Dynamic languages: you are the compiler. You save time now to pay it later.

cm2187 on March 4, 2019 [–]

Well, in principle you still pay it now in the form of lots of unit tests that you wouldn't need with a statically typed language.

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