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Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by luord on Sunday April 09, 2017 @10:20AM (#14072420)
Exactly, I never understand the static vs dynamic flamewars. Most of the issues usually presented stem from poor developers or poor development processes/environments/tools.

Poor code written in JavaScript won't become pretty just by translating to Java, and vice versa. That I've seen anyway.

Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by sidlls on Sunday April 09, 2017 @12:08PM (#14072919)
Many of the "poor development processes/environments/tools" issues are related to choosing dynamic languages in a "ship first, design later (maybe)" paradigm, though.
Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by luord on Sunday April 09, 2017 @01:16PM (#14073277)
"Ship first, design later" is completely orthogonal to what language one's using. Using a language that forces one to write int or str before the variables isn't preventing anyone to write software without having a design.

It's not even part of the "static vs dynamic" argument; one can rush things in Java or in C++ just as easily. The only difference is that Java might allow doing it slightly faster.

Re:Does it scale? Who cares (2011) by abritinthebay on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @08:25PM (#14093749)
As someone smarter than me put it: "Bad code is language agnostic"

Yes, catching type errors eliminates one category of error but, generally, the type of programmers that make that kind of error frequently will not constrain themselves to just one category of error.