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0 pointspizza2347y ago0 comments

I do something similar daily, and it works fine, as we have a strong test suite.

You can't disassociate dynamically typed languages from (strong) test suites, so one needs to qualify:

> Good luck making changes to a 100kloc Python codebase without test suite

versus

> Good luck making changes to a 100kloc Python codebase with a good test suite

In context, the first case is no different from "Good lucking making changes to a 100kloc Rust spaghetti-coded codebase", and one can't meaningfully judge a something based on a poor use of it.

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adamnemecek7y ago

> In context, the first case is no different from "Good lucking making changes to a 100kloc Rust spaghetti-coded codebase", and one can't meaningfully judge a something based on a poor use of it.

It's not the same. Type system provides certain guarantees. Also it's much harder to write spaghetti code in Rust.

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