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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by lelanthran on Thursday October 05, 2023 @01:52AM (#37775301)
> The thing is, I've yet to encounter a single instance of such an argument today.

I don't mean to be unnecessarily contentious, but isn't that the point of undiscovered territory?

We haven't encountered it yet, when we do then as awareness grows that pattern, idiom, theorem or concept will be picked up by mainstream statically typed languages.

It's enough to believe that the properties of (for example) JavaScript might lead to an as yet undiscovered pattern that is not possible in current statically typed languages.

Unlikely, but still possible.

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by digging on Thursday October 05, 2023 @10:45AM (#37779248)
Yes sure, it's always possible. My narrow experience leads me to believe, however, that some necessary threshold hasn't been crossed yet. And there's vanishingly little chance that I personally will be participating in such a revolution. Therefore from my perspective, it isn't happening yet and I can only wait to see if it does - meanwhile, I'm on the opposite side.
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