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by unexaminedlife 1801 days ago
I think it's rare in a truly organized environment where code reviews are common, but I have seen early in my career crazy stuff where people just either didn't like what they were doing for a career or they were under the gun to make something happen quickly. So dynamically typed languages unfortunately are extremely flexible for both of those cases. If only the language could be smart enough to recognize between the two and prevent the malicious / unhappy people from exploiting the flexibility :)

BTW, just for the record I didn't mention above, but I do love what many languages are doing such as TypeScript where strong typing can be gradually added over time.