mastermind@lemm.ee to Programmer Humor@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoWhich side are you? Javascript or Typescripti.postimg.ccimagemessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squaretram1@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoI’m kind of a beginner… Can someone explain why you would make/use/have a dynamically and/or weak typed language? Is it just to not write some toInteger / as u64 / try_from()? I mean the drawbacks seem to outweigh the benefits…
minus-squareKnusper@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up0·1 year agoThey used to be more attractive around the 2000s, before type inference became commonplace and when IDEs/editors were still a lot less powerful. As for making a dynamically typed language, to my knowledge, they are actually easier to create than statically typed languages…
I’m kind of a beginner… Can someone explain why you would make/use/have a dynamically and/or weak typed language? Is it just to not write some toInteger / as u64 / try_from()? I mean the drawbacks seem to outweigh the benefits…
They used to be more attractive around the 2000s, before type inference became commonplace and when IDEs/editors were still a lot less powerful.
As for making a dynamically typed language, to my knowledge, they are actually easier to create than statically typed languages…