Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on

Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by therealdrag0 on Thursday October 05, 2023 @07:34PM (#37785565)

That doesn’t sound like it’s typings fault at all. That’s a language design choice. Typed languages have types that handle adding numbers of all sizes same as dynamic typing.

In fact JavaScript numbers aren’t magic, they are 64bit doubles, which have their own strange behavior and special cases, many of which could be considered “incorrect”. You’re acting like dynamic typing solves problems that it doesn’t solve.

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Re:Strong typing, a hill I'm willing to die on by ReflectedImage on Friday October 06, 2023 @03:03PM (#37794821)

You have errors coming from using static types. Static typing blew up a space rocket, if you weren't aware.

JavaScript is terrible because it was built over 3 decades by different competing browser vendors.

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