Diminishing returns of static typing

Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by snambi on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:52PM (#15385492)

Any program that is non-trivial meaning 100K+ lines of code, involves many developers over 2+ years of time, should be written in a statically typed language.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by hellofunk on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:34PM (#15386516)

That really means nothing. 100K+ lines of code is an arbitrary number. For that many lines of C++, a similar Clojure solution to the same problem would be a small fraction of that. And many widely-used Clojure libraries are in production all over the industry for many years.

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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing by 201709User on Monday October 02, 2017 @01:38PM (#15385975)

That requires some sort of prophecy abilities. Why not play it (type-) safe?

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