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Maybe that means it is not as bad as it sounds, but if it's true it makes no sense to me. How could you possibly have minutes of compile time on so few lines of code? The typescript compiler isn't that slow.

I've witnessed teams that have switched from static typing to dynamic typing before, due to complaints about compile times and a lack of ability. It doesn't take long before their testkit balloons and they spend 10x the time on testing, dwarfing any savings they made by eliminating compilation. Or worse, the code turns into something magical but untouchable, lest something break...eliminating the ability that they imagined they would get.




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