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Discussion on: TypeScript is a waste of time. Change my mind.

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Antonio Sorrentini

For me it's all about the IDE. If the IDE you are using is really smart with a statically typed language I feel 75% more productive, speed and error free than with a dynamic type language. And yes, I agree these are not things you notice when writing 60 k ~ 40 k LOC software, but enter the 1 or more million of LOC realms and believe me you would remove this post. ;)
And that's talking of code written by my self. The real nightmare begins when you have to change/mantain the code written by others. For example 1 or more million of LOC written by some people you cannot even talk to because they are not in the team anymore. Those are the cases when even if I should choose that work or to be unemployed, I would strongly prefear to be unemployed.