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Pendulums swing....

• hota_mazi 8y ago
  That's a false analogy. CD's are not going to become popular again to listen to music because "pendulums swing". When a trend is clearly going toward increased comfort or clear progress, there is only one direction that the trend is going. I argue that statically typed languages are headed in that direction and that in ten, twenty years from now, dynamically typed languages will be looked at as "something that seemed like a good idea at the time".
  • puredanger 8y ago
    "Increased comfort" and "clear progress" are subjective measures about which people may disagree (to whit, I disagree). I argue that in ten or twenty years from now, we will have great tools in dynamic languages to express constraints when needed, without requiring proofs. These are opinions, not facts.
    • purple_ducks 8y ago
      Is there anything to capture (dev-)runtime data & generate specs from that as a starting point?
      • puredanger 8y ago
        https://github.com/stathissideris/spec-provider https://github.com/stathissideris/spec-provider
        • purple_ducks 8y ago
          super. thanks