Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by cle on Monday October 02, 2017 @11:57AM
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Believing that any technology has no cost is poor engineering IMO. There are costs to that rigidity, and they're rather self-evident.
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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by cobbzilla on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:57PM
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No one is saying there is no cost. The cost of using static types is (1) you have to think about type info when writing the code and (2) you have to fix compile-time type errors while you are developing. The poster is claiming that, over time, as code bases tend to grow large, this small investment yields increasing (not diminishing) returns; a claim I would agree with.