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nohuhu | 5 years ago
It is interesting how "protecting from small mistakes" is touted as "solving our API woes", innit?
At some point it is liberating to admit that static vs dynamic is a matter of personal preference and nothing more. If I like it, I will find a thousand reasons to justify it, and vice versa.
I just wish everybody would be open about it: I like "type safety" and the warm fuzzy feeling it gives me, and nothing you unwashed heathens can say about tight coupling, increased incidental complexity, over-engineered APIs and productivity loss can sway my opinion! Why, my productivity is _increased_ with static typing, because I make up for hours of bikeshedding about which type better conveys the underlying intent with writing less null checks and unit tests! Take that, type haters!
Meh, wishful thinking.
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