Re:PHP 8.1.0
by smt88 on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:18AM
(#29350361)
A compiler with a good type system catches a mistake instantly instead of at runtime.
The difference in time it saves the dev can be anywhere from a few seconds to minutes per mistake.
Multiplied by hundreds of mistakes, it makes a huge difference. And that's not even getting into the advantages of better autocomplete for external libraries.
As someone who has written many thousands of lines of PHP, JS, TS, C#, Java, and Python, I now find it baffling that someone would start a project in 2021 without a great type system as a safety net.
The difference in time it saves the dev can be anywhere from a few seconds to minutes per mistake.
Multiplied by hundreds of mistakes, it makes a huge difference. And that's not even getting into the advantages of better autocomplete for external libraries.
As someone who has written many thousands of lines of PHP, JS, TS, C#, Java, and Python, I now find it baffling that someone would start a project in 2021 without a great type system as a safety net.