JohnFen on “The days of using untyped languages on non-trivial projects are over.”

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I am old school and do not use an IDE, so for me strong typing is a must.

I, too, prefer to avoid using an IDE. I appreciate strong typing, but I certainly don't feel that loosely or untyped languages are made more difficult to use by not using an IDE.

38 3y

I use GVIM without plugins. So if I want to code some Python or JavaScript, I am looking at this:

    function hello(a, b) {
        return a + b;
    }

what the hell are "a" and "b"? numbers? strings? something else? no thank you.

JohnFen 3y

Oh, sure, I completely understand where you're coming from. But if I'm using an untyped language, I'm already having to keep that sort of state in my head regardless.

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