Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by cle on Monday October 02, 2017 @12:53PM
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Agree. My point is that, if I personally dislike C# (I don't), and I'm on a team of C# experts and C# is the best choice for shipping the product given those experts and all the other use cases, then C# is the best tool for the job and I'll peruse C# documentation. I try my best to focus objectively on the product, not my ego or subjective preferences...and I often fail :(.
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Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by emodendroket on Monday October 02, 2017 @02:52PM
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I've been writing PHP for a couple months and I've been pleasantly surprised so I feel like I am moving beyond that.
To be fair, PHP 7.1 with Composer is a very different language to PHP 4, for the better of course.
Re:Diminishing returns of static typing
by emodendroket on Monday October 02, 2017 @06:37PM
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Yeah, sure, and I was able to avoid the painful years. But C# pre-generics and pre-Linq is a way less appealing language too, you know? Most languages that are popular now look kind of rough to work in several versions ago.
Oh definitely. I think that’s the case for nearly any language that’s worth the code it’s written in. C++ is an interesting case study in how to do it both right and wrong; we’re spoilt for choice and it keeps getting better every day