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Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by wereHamster on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:14PM (#12775459)
The disciplines may have been around for long. But the industry has poured billions into educating people (students in universities) on C, Java, C++, C#. Comparatively little has been invested into educating people how to use and work with good type systems. You're comparing apples and oranges.

You can't ask the general developer population how they feel about static vs dynamic typing. The result will be biased towards dynamic because that's the only thing most developers know.

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Re:Static typing will not save us from broken software by yogthos on Sunday October 23, 2016 @06:37PM (#12775771)
Conversely, a lot of people have have used dynamic typing in languages like JavaScript and Ruby. Their OO nature encourages creation of many types, while pervasive mutability removes any possibility to do local reasoning about the code. The situation is completely different in functional dynamic languages backed by immutable data structures.
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