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Bizarre attitude. Types help you work faster. They eliminate the entire class of “undefined <something>” errors that you usually have wade through when writing
by woah 8y ago
Bizarre attitude. Types help you work faster. They eliminate the entire class of “undefined <something>” errors that you usually have wade through when writing js. I’m guessing that you don’t have a lot of experience with modern typed languages.
- skohan 8y agoAs you say I think that perception is largely due to lack of experience with statically typed languages in general, and also maybe lack of experience with projects of non-trivial complexity and/or managing production code. Compile-time errors feel like an unnecessary hindrance when you're not familiar with them, but when you understand that they are replacing much more vexing and difficult runtime errors, you never want to go back.
- asdffdsa 8y agoRight, some compile-time errors for me are like; wow, thank god that didn't happen in a runtime environment