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Re:Type checking in Python by yen223 on Sunday May 18, 2014 @10:38AM (#7763184)
You're getting downvoted, but I think you have a point. Any attempts to enact type-checking in a language that doesn't require it is doomed to failure. You'll get all the safety of a dynamic language, with the flexibility of a typed language.
Re:Type checking in Python by frowaway001 on Monday May 19, 2014 @07:38AM (#7766931)
> You'll get all the safety of a dynamic language, with the flexibility of a typed language.

That sounds a pretty good description of Go, so I'm wondering what his point is in the first place.