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>The rise of Python at the expense of safer, typed, faster, more principled languages makes me very sad for the state of our industry. Stronger type systems do
by crdoconnor 10y ago
>The rise of Python at the expense of safer, typed, faster, more principled languages makes me very sad for the state of our industry.
Stronger type systems don't come for free. They come at the expense of slower prototyping.
- willtim 10y agoI respectively disagree. I use types for rapid prototyping. Often I write out the type signatures first, type-check the high-level compositions and then fill in the implementations later.