What do you think about nominal typing vs structural typing?
My friends that have been only used to statically typed, nominal programming languages, thinks this is the worst feature of TypeScript.
I don’t hate nominative typing but TypeScript has definitely coached me towards thinking more about data and operations on data. It does a lot to encourage you to move away from the traditional OOP patterns that make most people dunk on Java.
If I had to directly compare the two I think nominative typing is superior only in the case where you have two identically-shaped (down to the property name) classes that have different semantics. I feel like if you are in this situation you should take a very large step back and re-think your decisions.
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What do you think about nominal typing vs structural typing? My friends that have been only used to statically typed, nominal programming languages, thinks this is the worst feature of TypeScript.
I don’t hate nominative typing but TypeScript has definitely coached me towards thinking more about data and operations on data. It does a lot to encourage you to move away from the traditional OOP patterns that make most people dunk on Java.
If I had to directly compare the two I think nominative typing is superior only in the case where you have two identically-shaped (down to the property name) classes that have different semantics. I feel like if you are in this situation you should take a very large step back and re-think your decisions.