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Unless you're using Smalltalk, then no, I'm not willing to use a watered down language for the simple ability to make variable renames bulletproof.

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There are other dynamic languages besides smalltalk that have a good IDE. Jetbrains provides IDEs with refactoring support for JavaScript, python, ruby, php and others.

not bulletproof refactoring though.

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