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How powerful is autocomplete, when statically typed languages also provide it?

• willwhitney 11y ago
  The development experience for statically typed languages is often _amazing_ compared to that of dynamically typed ones; we sometimes choose dynamically typed ones anyway because of the flexibility and speed of development they give. I'd be very happy with an environment that provided dynamically typed languages the same analysis, checking, completion, etc that statically typed languages take for granted.
  • seanmcdirmid 11y ago
    I'm working a type system called type-less that is oriented in this direction; check out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1PgYTPW_U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1PgYTPW_U I need to do another video soon, the work has progressed a bit further since then.
  • espadrine 11y ago
    > I'd be very happy with an environment that provided dynamically typed languages the same analysis, checking, completion Thinks like tern.js[0] or my own Aulx[1] provide that with varying success. Visual Studio's JS autocompletion is also stellar. The techniques used could be applied (with tweaks) to most dynamic languages. [0]: http://ternjs.net/doc/demo.html http://ternjs.net/doc/demo.html [1]: http://espadrine.github.io/aulx/ http://espadrine.github.io/aulx/