Re:The sky is not falling – about the supposed end of dynami...
by sanderjd on Sunday November 29, 2015 @07:02PM
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I liked your article and generally think you have lots of good thoughts, so I want to give you some color on why I think you're getting downvoted here (though I didn't downvote you), so that you don't just think it is because of "bible thumpers".
You seem to be missing that jasod's claim was that the "main claim of the article" is "that he predicts the next wave of successful languages will have static checking but also look & feel like a "dynamic" one made possible by smarter compiler technologies such as type inferencing." You haven't said anything in this thread about "the next wave of successful languages" one way or the other.
> If you think that static languages have won then you must live in a very special bubble seeing how pretty much all of the web runs on JavaScript.
That's true, but has nothing to do with the claim about "the next wave of successful languages" because javascript is clearly part of the last wave (or really, the one before).
You seem to be arguing (in an increasingly heated tone) a broader point (which may be right or wrong) in a thread attempting to focus on a more narrow one.
You seem to be missing that jasod's claim was that the "main claim of the article" is "that he predicts the next wave of successful languages will have static checking but also look & feel like a "dynamic" one made possible by smarter compiler technologies such as type inferencing." You haven't said anything in this thread about "the next wave of successful languages" one way or the other.
> If you think that static languages have won then you must live in a very special bubble seeing how pretty much all of the web runs on JavaScript.
That's true, but has nothing to do with the claim about "the next wave of successful languages" because javascript is clearly part of the last wave (or really, the one before).
You seem to be arguing (in an increasingly heated tone) a broader point (which may be right or wrong) in a thread attempting to focus on a more narrow one.