Raise a hand if you find dynamic typing disfavourable!

#dynamictyping vs #statictyping

What Dynamic Typing Is For

How dynamic typing makes DSL-driven development easy, and what can be done to bring static typing up to par.

Unplanned Obsolescence
What Dynamic Typing Is For

How dynamic typing makes DSL-driven development easy, and what can be done to bring static typing up to par.

Unplanned Obsolescence

why use dynamic typing. not meant to be a rhetorical question although i’m currently feeling skeptical there are good reasons.

#dynamictyping #programminglanguages

"Do it in #Rust from the beginning!" - Jon Gjengset

#RustLang #Prototyping #DynamicTyping #StaticTyping

For long there has been debate about #StaticTyping vs #DynamicTyping in #programming. Frequently claims are made that static typing reduces bugs. Purely anecdotally I have not personally found that to be significantly true, and static typing can make coding slower with less flexibility (then again I am a #Tcl guy, and also prefer pure #Javascript to #TypeScript).

Here is a great read that analyses various studies made on the topic: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/

Literature review on the benefits of static types

Hillel Wayne still puts out one of the better software development newsletters, here on the distant dream of what #DynamicTyping could be: https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/i-am-disappointed-by-dynamic-typing/
I am disappointed by dynamic typing

They have potential to be more than "no static types", but that hasn't happened.

“What’s Bad About Julia?”, Jakob Nybo Nissen (https://viralinstruction.com/posts/badjulia/).

Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27960865

See also: “A Review Of The Julia Language” [2014], Dan Luu (https://danluu.com/julialang/).

#Julia #Programming #ScientificComputing #ProgrammingLanguage #DynamicTyping #PLDI

What's bad about Julia?