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Hopefully more concise statically-typed languages will have the benefits of being easy to learn and build up their own grassroots communities.
by Rusky 16y ago
Hopefully more concise statically-typed languages will have the benefits of being easy to learn and build up their own grassroots communities.
- cageface 16y agoMaybe so but the kind of type system that it takes to make a static language as expressive as a dynamic language has some inherent complexity you're not going to be able to eliminate. Static languages can be a bit of a harder sell too because the benefits of static typing aren't as apparent on smaller codebases.
- Rusky 16y agoWhile the type system might be more complicated, programs are simpler. Dynamic languages often need runtime checks dealing with types, and /that/ complexity is there in either case. Static languages just make a pretty interface for it.