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To be clear, there are many other statically types languages besides Haskell, most of which are more amenable to a faster pace of development.

Further, while I agree with your “different matrixes of payout”, I think static types are a very low investment and they have a respectable payout in terms of preventing bugs but also in terms of documenting code and facilitating tooling (such as autocomplete or documentation generation) and they also permit easier code changes than comprehensive unit testing (even “good” unit testing). Of course, I’m not advocating that static types completely obviate tests; rather that they obviate some of the tests; however, there is no clear answer as to how many or which tests are obviated; it’s very circumstantial.



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