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I mean, unless you live under a rock you have to realize that there are a lot of complex non-trivial apps that run in languages like Python, JavaScript, and Rub

• incepted 11y ago
  Sure, but that doesn't prove anything besides the fact you can write apps in any language. The question is more: would writing these apps in a statically typed languages have been "better" along certain axes (easier to maintain, easier to write, easier to evolve, easier to debug, faster to ship, easier to recruit for, easier to ramp up newcomers on the team, etc...).
  • Touche 11y ago
    You said that it "quickly crumbles". What exactly does that mean? Sounds like you are softening your stance now, so why even so something so definitive?
    • incepted 11y ago
      Because automatic refactoring tools are not available for dynamically typed languages, programmers are more hesitant refactorings. So the technical debt accumulates and the code gets worse because of that death spiral. That's what I mean when I said that dynamically typed languages crumble under large code bases.
• StreamBright 11y ago
  Also in Erlang and Clojure. I think one of the most reliable software systems of all time was written in Erlang. http://www.ericsson.com/news/141204-inside-erlang-creator-joe-armstrong-tells-his-story_244099435_c http://www.ericsson.com/news/141204-inside-erlang-creator-jo...
  • kqr 11y ago
    Erlang is popularly used with an external static type checker, the Dialyzer.