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It depends. When I was writing almost purely functional programming code in Scala I was frequently cursing at type inference. Each explicit type hint helped me more easily understand what each next transform was doing.

More modern languages (Rust, Swift) have also gone and say "well, omitting types from arguments and return values of function signatures is a bad idea, so let's not do that."




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