> This dialect of Fortran prepares kids for a world that mostly no longer exists. This is a weird criticism, learning type declarations will not make someone w

> This dialect of Fortran prepares kids for a world that mostly no longer exists. This is a weird criticism, learning type declarations will not make someone worse at programming or rot their brain. It's mostly just syntax. As a point of comparison, Scratch doesn't let you assign object instances to variables. I just can't imagine getting worked up about type declarations in comparison to that. > for a world that mostly no longer exists. Also... casting no longer exists? I still do explicit casting in JS on occasion, and it certainly comes up in C-like languages. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Rust even has implicit type coercion at all.