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Re:Why We Chose Typescript by cutler on Friday June 30, 2017 @10:05PM (#14674913)
The biggest advantage of dynamically typed languages is the ease of using deeply nested data structures with mixed data types. This is just a pain in languages like Java and Scala where the Any type is often reverted to.
Re:Why We Chose Typescript by andreasgonewild on Saturday July 01, 2017 @05:36AM (#14676269)
As long as the number of mixed types is finite, unions/variants give you the same ease of use with static guarantees.