Writing software in typed languages is biased towards one big-bang finish, with less visibility of incomplete half-broken versions en route.
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My evidence is that you can't "just run the code anyway, and see how far it gets before crashing" with types.
Though I'm not intending to add positive/negative sentiment to that. Is being able to run something that's broken a good thing?
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Data point: Martin added ??? to Scala. Another data point: I use this feature regularly while prototyping.
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JS programmers run broken programs all the time, but I am not sure whether they deem that a pro or a con(tra).
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