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Actually, this talk mostly convinced me that dynamic typing is not just an anachronism and really is the right choice for some domains. Then again, now I wonde
by mikebenfield 9y ago
Actually, this talk mostly convinced me that dynamic typing is not just an anachronism and really is the right choice for some domains.
Then again, now I wonder if statically typed languages could get the benefits Hickey talks about just by having convenient Map and Keyword types like in Clojure and using them where appropriate.
- wellpast 9y agoAn interesting thought I got out of this talk is the reminder that most (nearly all?) statically typed languages are really just "mandated type verification" (not RH's terminology, btw). But, in the talk, Rich isn't anti- type verification. He says, like any tool, type verification should be used consciously, it should be a la carte (his term); that is what clojure.spec is all about, as I understand it.