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Honestly, static typing encouraging data shape documentation alone makes it worth it to me. Yes, they're pretty hacky in Python and don't feel great, but I'm sure it'll continue to improve.

I'm just so over having to guess what a function might accept or return. Life is too short to spend it constantly reverse engineering code because people can't be arsed to write proper documentation.



This would sum up my sentiment as well, just for documentation reasons alone it is wildly beneficial.

People who love dynamic typing seem to think their code is just “understandable” and it almost always isn’t




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