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Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by chinhodado on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:40PM (#11082027)
Why is Java a dynamic language? Isn't Java statically typed?
Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by ludamad on Thursday February 11, 2016 @02:00PM (#11082218)
Dynamically typed languages essentially have something like Java's Object type as the type of everything. Using wide types like that and interfaces in Java, you easily have dynamic traits in your code.
Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by supster on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:50PM (#11082098)
Static vs dynamic is actually kind of a blurry line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_and_weak_typing
Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by mike_hearn on Friday February 12, 2016 @03:29AM (#11085940)
The dynamic its of Java are not its type system, they're things like late dynamic linking.
Re:Projects That Are Making Fast Ruby a Reality by alfanick on Thursday February 11, 2016 @01:53PM (#11082129)
you can do metaprogramming - invent new methods or class on the run