But I need my types for tab completion!

tab completion encourages writing more boilerplate than you need

(half-joking)

You get more of whatever the path of least resistance is

It's like DHH's programming style and design philosophy for Rails was highly influenced by using TextMate, very spartan

I prefer his rant on HttpServletRequest - it really illustrates his point well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc

Love that one as well! “This is lifesucking!” 😆