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Re:“The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial proje... by JohnFen on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:07PM (#36727704)
> I am old school and do not use an IDE, so for me strong typing is a must.

I, too, prefer to avoid using an IDE. I appreciate strong typing, but I certainly don't feel that loosely or untyped languages are made more difficult to use by not using an IDE.

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Re:“The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial proje... by 38 on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:09PM (#36727734)
I use GVIM without plugins. So if I want to code some Python or JavaScript, I am looking at this:

    function hello(a, b) {
        return a + b;
    }
what the hell are "a" and "b"? numbers? strings? something else? no thank you.
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Re:“The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial proje... by JohnFen on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:11PM (#36727756)
Oh, sure, I completely understand where you're coming from. But if I'm using an untyped language, I'm already having to keep that sort of state in my head regardless.
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