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I wonder if part of the recent switch back to statically typed languages is merely a reflection of changing compute requirements. During my career, single core
by lumost 4y ago
I wonder if part of the recent switch back to statically typed languages is merely a reflection of changing compute requirements. During my career, single core performance has only doubled at best. Scale out has worked… but it hasn’t been cheap.
- grumpyprole 4y agoOr perhaps because knowing/reasoning about at least some properties before running a program is a good thing? Optimisation is only one consequence of static types. Perhaps the reason is that static type systems are getting better and less intrusive.