Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
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This presentation was recorded at GOTO Copenhagen 2022. #GOTOcon #GOTOcphhttps://gotocph.comRichard Feldman - Functional Programming Language Expert & Author...

An interesting take on why dynamically typed languages became so popular and why staticly typed languages are making a comeback.

  • imbrucy@lemmy.one
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    2 years ago

    Great talk and I completely agree with him. Static typing has a lot of benefits but the old style use cases had a lot of extra overhead. As languages have matured, that overhead has come down a lot and so it’s not surprising that they have gained back traction recently.