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> (I'm very type oriented when writing and, more importantly, reading code). Me too! Have you learned any tricks for getting up to speed on large code bases w
by CoastalCoder 3y ago
> (I'm very type oriented when writing and, more importantly, reading code).
Me too!
Have you learned any tricks for getting up to speed on large code bases with very limited static typing?
In recent years I've mostly worked on large, complex Python systems. The consequences of (undisciplined) dynamic typing not only sapped my joy in programming, it really burned me out.
Some people are really good at living with code bases like that. I'm not one of them, but I'm still hoping to find some way to bridge the mental gap.
- wofo 3y ago> it really burned me out. For me it didn't go that far, fortunately, because I managed to jump ship on time... But it was getting _tiring_. > Have you learned any tricks (...)? My current apprach is: don't. These days I usually work in Rust, C# and sometimes Typescript. I'm only open to working with dynamically typed languages for short periods of time, as a side quest of the main task (e.g. for my last contract I had to read quite some C code, which somewhat resembled dynamically typed code, but I spent even more time writing Rust, so it was OK).
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> My current apprach is: don't. Eh, thanks. That's my approach as well. I was just hoping for some silver bullet I guess.
- wofo 3y agoYeah, for me it was confusing to see that many programmers seem to thrive without static typing, and in fact the 6-month Elixir project was an experiment to see if I could do the same :P (to me, Elixir is still the most appealing of dynamically typed languages)