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It's the chocolate ice cream vs vanilla ice cream argument. There isn't an accounting for taste. If static typing if your thing it's never going to taste the ri

It's the chocolate ice cream vs vanilla ice cream argument. There isn't an accounting for taste. If static typing if your thing it's never going to taste the right way to you. I'm just the opposite, I greatly appreciate dynamic languages and if Elixir had been static I wouldn't be using it. That's probably from my Ruby experiences. My own stylistic tastes change from year to year but that's where my current taste is set. I keep seeing dynamic languages add type hints or bolt on static checkers. I personally just don't get it. I'd much rather just use Rust, Crystal, Golang, Java or Haskell if that's what I wanted.

cercatrova 4y ago
> I keep seeing dynamic languages add type hints or bolt on static checkers. I personally just don't get it. I believe it's because at scale, like Ruby at Stripe or Shopify or GitHub, it gets very difficult to change things without other stuff breaking, which a static type system ameliorates. Personally that's why I like static typing over dynamic, as I've initially started with dynamic languages like Python and JS and moved over to static variants because of all the frustrating mistakes I made which a compiler could have caught.