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It's really interesting to see so many people going back and forth between dynamically typed languages Clojure and Elixir, and statically typed languages like O

• jzoch 7y ago
  What you've found might be that because you had this explicit contract (types) that coerced you to write your code in a certain way, your code looks simpler when you just turn the types off. But would you have written it this way had there been no types? This exercise is more similar to converting a typed language like java to a type inferenced one (a la java 12 or "auto" in C++11). If you didnt have the guard rails of types the way you built your system may differ by relying a lot more on runtime behavior and conventions rather than compile time type checking and explicitly enforced rules.
  • sdegutis 7y ago
    That's exactly what I aim to find out. But I don't feel very comfortable trying it on a client project, not yet at least. Having written in many statically and dynamically typed languages, I feel like I should have already come to a conclusion by now. Yet somehow I'm still on the fence after all these years.