The biggest boost in productivity I've had in recent years is switching back to a statically typed language. TypeScript in my case. You can absolutely refactor and change course _so_ much quicker and with virtually no regressions at all. Just the other day we realized a feature I was building didn't handle an important case, and I had to really change the approach. Doing it in a JavaScript would have been dramatically harder.
The investment you have to make to really grok static typing is quite large. It took about 2 years for me to be really comfortable in TS. But you'll have to claw it out of my cold dead hands now.
Before switching to web dev, I used to work in Java, C#, C++, etc. But I've been away from static typing for about a decade now. I completely forgot how beneficial it is.
The investment you have to make to really grok static typing is quite large. It took about 2 years for me to be really comfortable in TS. But you'll have to claw it out of my cold dead hands now.
Before switching to web dev, I used to work in Java, C#, C++, etc. But I've been away from static typing for about a decade now. I completely forgot how beneficial it is.