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Didn't Facebook do this for PHP (Hack) and Microsoft with JavaScript (TypeScript)? From a technical aspect, I do find these projects cool. I wonder if its more
by azhenley 9y ago
Didn't Facebook do this for PHP (Hack) and Microsoft with JavaScript (TypeScript)?
From a technical aspect, I do find these projects cool. I wonder if its more efficient for large companies to initially develop using dynamic languages then transition them with these optionally typed languages.
- vorotato 9y agoSmall projects scream dynamic types, but not every baby never grows up. Eventually the cognitive load becomes crippling and you're crying for static types.
- xzel 9y agoFacebook did even more with PHP with HHVM and other tooling. I'm not sure if JS was exactly the same for Microsoft as I saw it more as a cool internal project that got big vs something that eventually became necessary.
- WorldMaker 9y agoFrom what I read, several big teams at Microsoft were dogfooding Typescript immediately during development, even before it was ever externally released.
- jermaustin1 9y agoDynamic languages definitely help with the rapid development of a small application or prototype, but when you have a large team trying to maintain the application, static typing allows for better compile time error catching. Weird hybrid approaches makes me wary.