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Refactoring is a huge problem for all dynamic languages. It’s so easy to break things in ways that do not appear until runtime. They are very productive for fi
by api 1y ago
Refactoring is a huge problem for all dynamic languages. It’s so easy to break things in ways that do not appear until runtime.
They are very productive for first drafts. Then the code tends to “melt” as more people work on it or you do refactors because there is no static type system to catch obvious problems or enforce any order.
- CupricTea 1y agoI definitely agree with first drafts. To this day I still fire up Python for quick ideas and one-off scripts because it's just so damn convenient. It wasn't until I tried writing larger programs in it where I first felt how brittle it really is.