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Re:Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise by Jtsummers on Saturday May 13, 2023 @09:35PM (#35934521)
It isn't weakly typed, it has strong, dynamic typing. GP is either confusing weak typing with dynamic typing or making some other kind of error. To demonstrate, in contrast to say perl, try `1+"1"` in Julia. It'll happily error out for you instead of coercing that string into a number to perform arithmetic with.
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Re:Julia 1.9.0 lives up to its promise by sgt101 on Sunday May 14, 2023 @04:02PM (#35940929)
Thank you for some explanation.

I thought more or less the same. Sometimes people think strong typing is type safety. Weak/strong typing is a very confusing concept now, I think dynamic / static is a much clearer division.

Personally I have had a lot of value using the Julia type system for runtime inference in programs, I love it!

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