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The era of strong vs weak typing debate has passed. Adopt strong typing, like a professional, or fade into the 90s web. Harsh but fair.
by bottled_poe 4y ago
The era of strong vs weak typing debate has passed. Adopt strong typing, like a professional, or fade into the 90s web. Harsh but fair.
- dalyons 4y agopractically all modern strongly typed languages are adopting or already had type inference from day one, allowing you to do things like var. They give up nothing in terms of strong typing to do so. Forcing people to write manual boilerplate does not equal professional, what a strange take.
- bottled_poe 4y agoThe engineering trade-offs are paid somewhere, better in an objective space than a subjective one.
- dalyons 4y agoi dont know what you mean by this? Fundamentally, this is a story of technology getting better (type inference in compilers) so humans can do less work. We're not pushing the work to some other human place. We're not losing anything in safety, and we're gaining in readability, boilerplate and expressiveness. Its progress!
- 3836293648 4y agoNoone is arguing for weak typing. They're arguing for type inference. They're not even slightly the same thing
- jeremyjh 4y agoThe era of not knowing the difference between static typing, strong typing, and type inference is past. I'm the sort of professional who likes to learn computer science.