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> Types are for compilers, not people, and personally I think there's more disadvantages than advantages

The Haskell community strongly disagrees...

I dont know Haskell that well, but I thought it had strong static typing?

Though, Haskell figures out the types for you, instead of you typing them in, maybe thats a big difference. In Haskell, do you find you have to think about the types anyway, or can you code it like you would clojure?

I come from a clojure background, maybe that's why I don't enjoy TS. I find that large projects, so much code is un-necessary, people spend a lot of time troubleshooting types instead of building functionality. Of course it depends on the project. Social security #'s is a different scenario than something like a game or frivolous retail...

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