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>The fact that all static languages are adding an Any type means the discussion is settled. They really aren't, though. No statically typed languages which sta

>The fact that all static languages are adding an Any type means the discussion is settled. They really aren't, though. No statically typed languages which started off as such, to my knowledge, have added an Any type (casting magic notwithstanding). You must be thinking of TypeScript and other "gradually typed" languages, where it's a necessity for interop with existing code. The rest of your comment, unfortunately, does not really put forth any coherent argument, so I would tend to weakly agree with the parent comment.

joelbluminator 6y ago
I meant C# dynamic type actually. So I was wrong to mention Any.
- pjmlp 6y ago
  Which was added to support COM variant types as main goal, and as side effect of trying to make the CLR a good target for Python and Ruby, an effort that has mostly died and is kept around just for backwards compatibility.
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  - joelbluminator 6y ago
    Quick Google shows this thing is still being used, for quite a few use cases. Maybe it's not super popular but what do u base it dying out on? https://code-maze.com/advanced-csharp-dynamic-type/#whyusedynamic https://code-maze.com/advanced-csharp-dynamic-type/#whyusedy...
    - pjmlp 6y ago
      Its current support in .NET Core and closed issues with won't fix. https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/158 https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/discussions/158
      - joelbluminator 6y ago
        It's baked into the language and still used, so... There was a real need/use case for it.
oalae5niMiel7qu 6y ago
Microsoft QuickBASIC was fully statically typed. Its successor, Visual Basic, had a VARIANT type. Then VBScript was derived from that, and it was fully dynamically typed.