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1337shadow on June 24, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How to avoid over-engineering software des...

"Fantastic" or "The only way" ? has anyone seen a case of refactoring without test end well ? I haven't.

Seems like that "refactoring untested code" would be a well established recipe for disaster.

MaxBarraclough on June 24, 2020 [–]

> "Fantastic" or "The only way"?

Not sure if it counts as a 'way', but a static type system helps too.

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