Re:Kent Beck: “I get paid for code that works, not for tests...
by naasking on Thursday December 08, 2016 @10:11AM
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> I realized that statically-typed languages can really have the potential to be as or more productive than dynamically typed languages paired with a good enough IDE.
Indeed, and C# isn't even a particularly safe typed language. It still has pervasive null, for instance. When you get into F#/OCaml/Haskell/Rust-type languages, it's a real eye opener.
> Want to read/write pretty-arbitrary JSON? Good luck
Not sure I see the problem. Just deserialize JSON into a JsonValue which provides dictionary semantics like JavaScript.
Indeed, and C# isn't even a particularly safe typed language. It still has pervasive null, for instance. When you get into F#/OCaml/Haskell/Rust-type languages, it's a real eye opener.
> Want to read/write pretty-arbitrary JSON? Good luck
Not sure I see the problem. Just deserialize JSON into a JsonValue which provides dictionary semantics like JavaScript.