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Is this true or false? I don't understand the downvotes.
by jnwkw 7y ago
Is this true or false? I don't understand the downvotes.
- Rovanion 7y agoWhile it is true that Java is statically typed and Clojure is dynamically typed it is perhaps one of the less important differences between the two languages. If you in fact would like to add a static type system on top of Clojure there is a way to do that: Typed Clojure. https://typedclojure.org/ https://typedclojure.org/
- pyb 7y agoMany people disagree with "the reason to choose Java".
- CodeArtisan 7y agohttps://danluu.com/empirical-pl/ https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/
- innocentoldguy 7y agoI'm not going to downvote the comment, but I think the "statically typed" argument is fantastically overrated. I spent years of my life coding in Java and C# and other years of my life writing Clojure, Python, Ruby, and Elixir code. I've never once thought to myself of the latter, "Damn! This would be so much better if I could have static types." It has literally never, not once, ever been an issue for me.