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Re:Things I Regret About Node.js [video] by ChicagoDave on Thursday June 07, 2018 @10:45AM (#17256179)
This sounds like a personal preference for dynamic vs strongly typed.

I could rewrite your entire comment in reverse about how I find C# highly expressive and readable while dynamic languages or Kotlin (blech) are a mess of inconsistent whack-a-doodle experimentation.

But my opinion is useless.

The value in any platform is productivity and if any given team can be productive, it doesn't matter if it's COBOL, RPG-3, Pascal, BASIC, or a functional language like F# or plain old JavaScript.

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Re:Things I Regret About Node.js [video] by rubber_duck on Thursday June 07, 2018 @05:42PM (#17260550)
Actually I like static typing, I mentioned I rewrote a project in F# in like 1/3 of the code from C# solution.

It's more that C# is static typing done poorly IMO - a relatively limited type system that adds overhead compared to dynamic languages or more expressive static languages.

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