▲ 342 ▼ What are your programming hot takes? (lemmy.ml) submitted 3 years ago by 257m@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev 894 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Crisps@lemmy.world 44 points 3 years ago (3 children) Dynamically typed languages don’t scale. Large project bases become hard to maintain, read and refactor. Basic type errors which should be found in compilation become runtime errors or unexpected behavior. permalink fedilink source hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not really a hot take. Why do you think most dynamic languages have the option to tack on static typing? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago Depends on the community. In Lisp communities, for example, it's very much a hot take. Which is a shame, because I'd love a statically typed Lisp-like language. permalink fedilink source parent [+] steventrouble@programming.dev 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NBJack@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago You know, I wish it wasn't. Much of Amazon was on a version of Perl for years (and may still be) for almost all of their front end hosting. Facebook has transformed PHP into Hack (which is better for types, though technically not strongly typed), strongly suggesting they were running PHP until 2014. Let's not forget what WordPress is still in PHP too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago We can feel it in our bones... And boy is it a pain when you find a huge codebase that is JS only or python without types. Fucking hell dealing with that shit permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) Not really a hot take. Why do you think most dynamic languages have the option to tack on static typing? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago Depends on the community. In Lisp communities, for example, it's very much a hot take. Which is a shame, because I'd love a statically typed Lisp-like language. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 1 point 3 years ago Depends on the community. In Lisp communities, for example, it's very much a hot take. Which is a shame, because I'd love a statically typed Lisp-like language. permalink fedilink source parent
[+] steventrouble@programming.dev 6 points 3 years ago (1 child) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] NBJack@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago You know, I wish it wasn't. Much of Amazon was on a version of Perl for years (and may still be) for almost all of their front end hosting. Facebook has transformed PHP into Hack (which is better for types, though technically not strongly typed), strongly suggesting they were running PHP until 2014. Let's not forget what WordPress is still in PHP too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] NBJack@reddthat.com 1 point 3 years ago You know, I wish it wasn't. Much of Amazon was on a version of Perl for years (and may still be) for almost all of their front end hosting. Facebook has transformed PHP into Hack (which is better for types, though technically not strongly typed), strongly suggesting they were running PHP until 2014. Let's not forget what WordPress is still in PHP too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 1 point 3 years ago We can feel it in our bones... And boy is it a pain when you find a huge codebase that is JS only or python without types. Fucking hell dealing with that shit permalink fedilink source parent