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Julia uses its type system for:
- self-documentation
- reduction of boilerplate manual type checking that litters libraries in dynamic languages
- all those times you need to express the type of something, which happens especially frequently in numerical code
- performance
In the future, some "type linting" could be built into the standard library since we can infer types for so much code, but it isn't the top priority.
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Julia uses its type system for:
- self-documentation
- reduction of boilerplate manual type checking that litters libraries in dynamic languages
- all those times you need to express the type of something, which happens especially frequently in numerical code
- performance
In the future, some "type linting" could be built into the standard library since we can infer types for so much code, but it isn't the top priority.