[ef4]

It's a red herring to bring up the static vs dynamic typing issue, because both can readily support interactive autocompletion & documentation.

Even something as Spartan as the Javascript REPL in Chrome will do autocompletion of method names, despite being in a completely dynamically typed environment.

[strager]

> var n = 42; n.[[TAB]]

No auto-complete. It's severely limited to only live objects. Which may be an argument for REPL, but it's not an argument for "dynamic languages can have autocomplete".

[heretohelp]

I have intelligent object method/property auto-completion in Python in Emacs.

The argument for "dynamic languages can have autocomplete" is that they already do in a variety of modern editors (like Emacs) and IDEs (like PyCharm et al).

You're not only ignorant, but proudly so.

[actf]

You're right that autocomplete does exist, but in my experience it's very limited in dynamic languages.

For example, the following code does not give me any auto-completion suggestions in eclipse or in vim:

  str = "hello"
  test(str)
  
  def test(val):
    val.[TAB]

[strager]

I wasn't saying it's not possible to have autocomplete for dynamic languages. I've used VJET, a pretty good Eclipse plugin for JS development.

I was saying that "Even something as Spartan as the Javascript REPL in Chrome" can't do "real" autocomplete.

[kleim]

Vim can be a decent, fast Python IDE with the right plugins too: http://dancingpenguinsoflight.com/2009/02/python-and-vim-mak...