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Imagine adding types to a legacy JavaScript codebase. You can turn everything to valid TypeScript by annotating `any` everywhere, then you can gradually add types here and there.

Or imagine writing Rust with `Rc` everywhere and then using the borrowing style on the hot path.

I can see where the author is coming from, but sadly a difficulty is that dependently typed languages often require the programmer to prove type equality during type checking. It's hard to do if the information is not complete.



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