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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by the_af on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:18PM (#37774573)
> The current research shows that these things are neither improved nor weakened by static typing

I think there's a difference between "current research hasn't been able to conclude anything" and "current research shows [thing]".

I believe static typing is better, but that there's no conclusive research because there are many confounding variables and the experiments are really hard to conduct in the real world.

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by tipiirai on Wednesday October 04, 2023 @11:37PM (#37774662)
> I believe static typing is better

Like most of us here it seems. But do you prefer TypeScript over JavaScript? What is your belief / feeling?

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by the_af on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:00AM (#37778747)
I haven't touched either in more than a year, but when I did, I preferred TypeScript.

I'm currently dealing with the awkward tooling Python has for types :(

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