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The strongest opinion I hold about programming (or maybe anything) is about type systems: I don't want to work with you if you don't understand the benefits of
by shepherdjerred 3y ago
The strongest opinion I hold about programming (or maybe anything) is about type systems:
I don't want to work with you if you don't understand the benefits of statically typed languages.
Great things can be (and have been) built with dynamically typed languages, but there are only a few reasons to use them today:
* Elite teams who are experienced in the language
* Smaller projects, short scripts, etc.
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- radicalbyte 3y agoThe best developers I've worked with are all massive fans of static languages for anything important. All of them would use dynamic language too but it situations which allowed it (small tooling, glue-style scripts). The biggest "dynamic only" have been people who I struggle to call developers. The kind of people who suddenly become massive supporters of something they read in "Smashing Magazine" that week.
- adastra22 3y agoI’d go a bit further: I use dynamically typed languages for small things all the time, like shell scripts or build system glue. But I would absolutely, 100% use a statically typed glue language instead, if one were available for me to use.
- seivan 3y ago[dead]