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carlmr on Feb 19, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I Prefer Dynamic Typing Over Static Typing (20...

If the API you rely on breaks, you have to change your code. This is exactly how catastrophes happen.

It's more of an issue that you have unreliable 3rd party vendors that you buy from/use.

SkyPuncher on Feb 19, 2019 [–]

> It's more of an issue that you have unreliable 3rd party vendors that you buy from/use.

It happens very, very rarely - but the problem is when it happens it can happen suddenly and be very, very hard to address properly.

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