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Yeah. He's aware of that. I think he's generally talking to Java crowds, so the static typing experience of the general programmer is pretty bad. That said, I
by christophilus 9y ago
Yeah. He's aware of that. I think he's generally talking to Java crowds, so the static typing experience of the general programmer is pretty bad.
That said, I liked this talk and agreed with much of it.
- yawaramin 9y agoThere are options on the JVM outside of Java, from Kotlin to Scala to Whiley to Eta, or even OCamlJava which might be nearing a release. An alternative to dismissing static typing entirely based on Java, is looking at other languages which have less verbose, more elegant type systems on the JVM. RH is ignoring that aspect completely. Understandable, based on his worldview and experience, but not very accurate.