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by emporas 817 days ago
Super spreader event we've got ourselves into.

I took a look at Raku, which claims be a better Perl maybe, or closely related but more modern, it certainly looks nice. Although i am a big fan of typed languages, Raku piqued my interest.
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lizmat 816 days ago
In Raku, if you want to go typed, you can! It's called "gradually typed".

my Int $a = 42; # ok

my Int $a = "foo"; # Type check failed in assignment to $a; expected Int but got Str ("foo")

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emporas 816 days ago
Very nice, good to know. Yes i know gradual typing, Python has a form of that i think. I will check out Raku at some point, the type system will not go unnoticed. I didn't even know it had one!
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