On: Is Uncle Bob serious?

[magice]

>Yes, but they increase delivery time problems and developer time problems.

That's purely guesswork. Seriously! My observation is that as the size of the project grows, type system switches from hindrances to actually speed up development and save developer time. Ever try to grep weakly typed system for name definition? Yeah, you don't have that problem in strongly typed system. Lots of other reasoning are easier to do with types than without.

[sheepmullet → magice]

> Ever try to grep weakly typed system for name definition?

For what purpose?

[coldtea → sheepmullet]

To understand a codebase?

[sheepmullet → coldtea]

I haven't had any problems jumping around large codebases in smalltalk, clojure, or JavaScript.

I've had a lot more trouble understanding large Java codebases.

I thought they might be talking about difficulty refactoring.