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I don't think you understand what "type errors" means if you are making that assertion; or your multi-contributor codebase has such excellent test coverage that your tests are doing for you what a modern type system can do for you.

In a dynamically-typed codebase, it's near impossible to have rare type-error occurrence because you're off-loading the type system into into the programmers head (which is subject to human fallibility - even when countered with excellent unit testing!)



To be specific, I was talking only of a specific sort of errors that the JIT compiler allows e.g. applying numerical operators to strings, or combinations of string and int.

Issues with null are much more common.




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