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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by gdcbe on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @01:51PM (#37769000)
Call me sceptical, but I don’t buy it. What makes you certain that’s the (one) future… Also programming is a super broad field, and more then a field is almost more like a medium then a field.

I honestly don’t know if we’ll still program by hand or not, but I do look skeptical at people who are very certain we won’t. Don’t think that’s the first time in history people make that prediction…

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by ActorNightly on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @03:16PM (#37770177)
Compilation at its core is a translation problem. Right now, it would be fairly trivial to train an LLM to essentially be a compiler. And, you can already prompt LLMs on generating code for a wide array of things.

As far as adoption, there is a reason why dynamic type languages that feature a lot more natural syntax (Node, Python) are used WAY more than others.

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