| > Your code is also just strings, until you compile it. Actually, these days until you run it. Your arguments would make more sense in the 90s where people would actually compile code. His arguments made sense in the 90s, and amusingly, post 2015. Your argument made sense in the 00s and before 2015. Swift is compiled (Apple platforms; Objective-C has always been compiled). Rust is compiled (multiple platforms). Typescript is compiled (so web/Javascript). Kotlin is compiled (Android; Java has always been compiled). C/C++ were always compiled (POSIX; Windows). C# was always compiled (Windows; POSIX). Almost every modern language is compiled and if it's not, it's getting a very solid static analysis step that for sure you want to have and run (PHP got types a while back, Python is getting them, Ruby is getting them). |