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Avoid messy, gobbledygook, weak and no typed programming languages along with giant bloatware languages.

• kerkeslager 7y ago
  When Go fanboys say stuff like "avoid weak and no typed programming languages" in relation to Go, it just shows they don't know much about type systems. "No typed programming languages" aren't a thing. Some type is inherent to any programming language that runs on a computer, because at some point you have to shove the data into a range of memory and it will either fit or it won't. Assembly has types. They are very weak types, but they are types. On a continuum of weak vs. strong types, Go is very much a weakly-typed language. If you think it's strongly typed, it's probably because of two things: 1) you don't have any experience with a strongly typed language like Haskell or OCaml, and 2) you don't know the difference between strong/weak types and static/dynamic types. There's a widespread misconception among Go programmers that Go has a stronger type system than Python, which is pretty false: Go's type system is more static than Python's, but it's definitely weaker than Python's in a few ways. Go does have a stronger type system than C, but that's not saying much.
  • privateSFacct 7y ago
    Thanks for the follow-up