No, it's like saying "I can't remember the last time I needed to turn my document into a string literal embedded into the word processor's source code, so that a spelling error could be caught when the word processor is recompiled. I test my document using an easy-to-use run-time spell checking feature."
This is not an apt analogy at all. You don't recompile your editor to get type errors. The question is type checking vs unit tests. If your text editor can type check as you type, the feedback loop is much tighter than recompiling and rerunning and possibly modifying handwritten unit tests.
