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Weak, Strong, Static And Dynamic – An Introduction To Programming Type Systems

• biggerfisch 13y ago
  "Establishing everything clearly makes our Person easier to debug but harder to change." I think that the line above from this article highlights a certain difference between massive, corporate projects and (initially) smaller hackathon projects. In my experience so far, the large corporations tend to prefer the statically typed languages, eg, C#, Java, etc, and all of the hackathons I've attended have been dominated by javascript, python, and the like. The large companies tend to also have lots of documentation and specifications surrounding each project - often even before a single line of code is written. These companies rely on the correctness of their design to not excessively change in the near future of development. In comparison, hacakthon projects, while often just or more successful, instead take great advantage from the fluidity provided by dynamic typing, allowing them to rapidly create totally new revisions of their object structure.