Static Typing Debate
This cluster centers on debates about the benefits and drawbacks of static typing versus dynamic typing in programming languages, including discussions on productivity, error prevention, maintainability, and personal experiences across languages like TypeScript, Java, Python, and Clojure.
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Citation needed. Static typing isn't a panacea.
Do you ever miss static typing?
Why "strong static typing" in particular? Surely there are many other things that could help.
Maybe the static typing - harder to change, so you try to get it right.
I'm thinking that static typing is a big one.
Sounds like the author's been using the wrong programming language or doesn't understand at all the purpose of static typing.
Thank you for the insightful comment, all of a sudden static typing increasing coding friction makes sense.
What prompted you to want static typing? What did it help you do better?
Power of static typing, that it allows one to develop complex programs faster and better, not slower.
PDF: https://www.ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/23_hane...see conclusionsintuitively static typing is less forgiving and forces programmers to write code in a specific formthink how much time has been wasted writing Java boilerplate code.