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What if the typing was optional?
by Bahamut 12y ago
What if the typing was optional?
- bcheung 12y agoI'm down for that.
- seasoup 12y agoI'm still not, it's adding complexity in exchange for performance. I prefer ease of use of the language over performance, JavaScript is fast enough for most things and is still getting faster without adding complexity for programmers.
- enobrev 12y agoThat's what I loved about the [basically] now-deceased Actionscript 3 [1]. It was an optionally typed Javascript with compile-time and runtime checking, packages, and namespaces. It was an absolute pleasure to code with. I would generally start my prototypes untyped to get something running quickly as a throwaway, and then rewrite strictly typed as I better understood the problem. I was very happy to ditch Flash years ago, but I would have loved to have AS3 replace Javascript. 1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ActionScript#ActionScript_3.0