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Groovy taught me that opt-in typing always sucks. Either a language is statically typed from it's inception or it's not. Type hinting is like putting up doors w
by speed_spread 4y ago
Groovy taught me that opt-in typing always sucks. Either a language is statically typed from it's inception or it's not. Type hinting is like putting up doors with locks around a house that has no walls to begin with.
- simoncion 4y agoFor what it's worth, Erlang's dialyzer definitely does not suck.
- doomslice 4y ago… ten minutes later.
- realusername 4y agoWhen it works yeah, sometimes good luck figuring out what it wants
- jitl 4y agoIt’s done wonders for quality in JavaScript land
- bqmjjx0kac 4y agoI really like statically-typed languages where you can let the compiler fill in the blanks. Like Rust or Haskell at the farther extreme.