Re:JavaScript is Eating the World
by flavio81 on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:15PM
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My take is that having dynamic typing plus strong typing is a (pretty) good compromise. And static typing plus weak typing, insufficient.
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Re:JavaScript is Eating the World
by seanwilson on Thursday August 24, 2017 @08:50PM
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What languages would you put in these two categories?
Not all languages but here's a list:
dynamic typing, strong typing: python (for the most part), Scheme
dynamic typing, weak typing: Javascript, PHP
static typing, strong typing: Pascal, Ada, Java, C#
static typing, weak typing: C, Typescript, perhaps others
SPECIAL CASES:
strongly typed, dynamically typed, but with some compilers it can also be statically typed: Common Lisp
strongly typed, statically typed but can infer types: Haskell, ML family
strongly typed, can infer type with "auto" keyword: C++ (latest version)
non-typed: Machine language, assembler, perhaps Forth
Re:JavaScript is Eating the World
by seanwilson on Friday August 25, 2017 @01:02AM
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What better alternative do you have to TypeScript right now though that you can use practically with existing libraries? Perfect is the enemy of good. TypeScript can capture more complex properties than C as well.