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are dynamic languages really a "use at your own risk" ? or it's about changing frame of mind ? my take is if you treat your program as a series of data flows -

by dzonga 11mo ago

are dynamic languages really a "use at your own risk" ? or it's about changing frame of mind ? my take is if you treat your program as a series of data flows - then use primitives such as maps | arrays - then you don't need as much typing or typing at all. a map doesn't need to take a shape or a Person | Manager - either the keys exist or they don't and almost every language has guards to ensure you can safely navigate existence of keys. but then again my realm is mostly around - web | data systems - if I was dealing with OS level systems and needed to make sure i have i64 ints then yeah typing would be crucial.

dominicrose 11mo ago
Well we take risks in either direction. The risk of using Java is becoming bored to death and having delays. The risk of PHP is that you know bugs are going to happen in production, even if you have something like Sentry to monitor them, even if they're not critical bugs.