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by leptons 984 days ago
static typing also doesn't fix unintended consequences. In the example given above, naming things descriptively and applying the smallest bit of common sense would achieve practically the same thing as static typing.
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Sure but it finds compile time errors a whole lot easier. And when modifying code i can say from experience it’s much smoother to modify large statically typed projects than large dynamically typed ones.

Actually anyone arguing against that i don’t even think it’s worth my breath since you likely just don’t have much experience and really like whatever your pet language is

>Actually anyone arguing against that i don’t even think it’s worth my breath since you likely just don’t have much experience and really like whatever your pet language is

Thanks for the ad hominem attack, but I've been coding in C, C++, C#, python, javascript, php and a dozen other languages, as well as assembly language which doesn't even have types at all, for 40+ years. Maybe your ad hominem attacks work on other social media sites, but not here kiddo.