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| | Sometimes there are these moments of truth. They happen completely unexpectedly, such as when I read this tweet: https://twitter.com/whileydave/status/536422407297171457 David is the author of the lesser-known but not at all lesser-interesting Whiley programming language, a language that has a lot of static type checking built in it. One of the most interesting features of the...
| | nurkiewicz.com
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| | When choosing or learning a new programming language, type system should be your first question. How strict is that language when types don't really match? Will there be a conservative, slow and annoying compiler? Or maybe a fast feedback loop, often resulting in crashes at runtime? And also, is the language runtime trusting you know what you are doing, even if you don't? Or maybe it's babysitting you, making it hard to write fast, low-level code? Believe it or not, I just described static, dynamic, weak and strong typing.
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| | JavaScript is a dynamically typed language, and that gives it a lot of edge in my opinion. It is one of the most used programming language right now. So definitely worth learning even if people do not want to head towards this direction in their careers.
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