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Depends where someone comes from. If they are from a weakly or dynamically typed language (C, python, Javascript) then Go is quite ok. If you're coming from Has
by fnord123 4y ago
Depends where someone comes from. If they are from a weakly or dynamically typed language (C, python, Javascript) then Go is quite ok. If you're coming from Haskell, OCaml, or Rust, then sure Go might be frightening.
- peaky_blinder 4y agoThey're all weakly typed languages but C is statically typed.
- kaba0 4y agoI think parent didn't say anything to the contrary, or maybe it was edited?
- fnord123 4y agoFirst iteration was didn't include the part about haskell/ocaml.
- simiones 4y agoPython is generally considered quite strongly typed, though dynamic. That is because Python has relatively few implicit conversions, and especially few that are surprising ("1" + 1 is an error, not 2 or "11"; and unsigned short + unsigned short does not equal a signed int).