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I love type checking but I do think the point at which type checking becomes a necessary business decision is very far in the future. Companies such as Stripe,
by hardwaregeek 5y ago
I love type checking but I do think the point at which type checking becomes a necessary business decision is very far in the future. Companies such as Stripe, GitHub, Facebook, etc. are examples of this. And with some typed languages, e.g. Rust, Swift, OCaml, there's an additional factor of a weaker ecosystem. Yes, even Rust's ecosystem is worse than say, JavaScript's for some areas such as desktop applications.
- teaearlgraycold 5y agoI use typed languages not for a quantitative ROI. I use them to make programming not a huge pain in the ass.
- bgirard 5y agoI worked on Facebook Web Infra while we were adopting Flow. And typing was a huge productivity and safety boost. Sure, you can build without out. There's no denying that. But now we're in 2022 and we have mature type checkers for JS so it's not something I would skip on today.