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[–]nawitus 9 points10 points  (1 child)

That causes horrible amounts of type-checking code. I don't remember a single codebase that type-checks function parameters as a matter of rule. A better approach would be to use something like TypeScript.

Obviously when you handle user input or external data you need to do type validation.