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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by micaksica on Saturday July 29, 2017 @11:53PM (#14884372)
> A good static type system is too useful and important.

What? A whole lot of web apps these days are built in Python, Ruby, or JavaScript, none of which are statically typed languages. Do you mean a strong type system?

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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by rubyn00bie on Sunday July 30, 2017 @12:25AM (#14884438)
I assume mean strongly typed and I can agree with them to an extent. While it does add slight overhead when writing code (not enough to matter I think) it does help eliminate a bunch of errors/edge cases you'd have to unit test for in an dynamically typed language.

Though as I always say: use the right tool for the job. And for a lot of jobs dynamically typed languages and framework offer a lot to the developer.

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Re:Benchmarks of PHP 7.2 Beta: PHP Is Still Getting Faster by deevus on Sunday July 30, 2017 @01:15AM (#14884536)
There's no concrete definition of strongly typed, either.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2690544/what-is-the-diff...

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