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How very dishonest of you. It actually boils down to "a bunch of common languages do it right, so use one of those instead of java".
by asdasf 13y ago
How very dishonest of you. It actually boils down to "a bunch of common languages do it right, so use one of those instead of java".
- ubernostrum 13y agoWell, no, the dishonesty is basically in arguing that statically-typed languages have all sorts of wonderful features... while omitting that the set of statically-typed languages which have those features, and the set of statically-typed languages people actually use, do not overlap much.
- runT1ME 13y agoLinkedIn, Twitter, FourSquare, Netflix, Rackspace, Firebase, Hulu and a ton of others use Scala. How is that dishonest?
- ubernostrum 13y agoIt's dishonest because no matter how many hot HN-echo-chamber companies you can find using Scala, it is still a language that nobody uses, in terms of the broader industry.
- asdasf 13y agoNo. Discussing what static type systems do means discussing what static type systems do. Not pretending static type systems can't do anything java doesn't do. We don't judge dynamic typing by how shitty PHP is for the same reason. Dynamic typing is not what made PHP shitty, it just happens to be both dynamically typed and shitty.