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Why Static Typing Came Back • Richard Feldman • GOTO 2022
GOTO Conferences
Richard Feldman's GOTO Copenhagen 2022 talk on why dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and JavaScript rose in the 1990s and why each now has a popular static type checker. It argues that modern static typing recovers the advantages that made dynamic languages attractive.
HN commenters cite it as a clear account of the trade-offs between static and dynamic typing and why the industry is swinging back to types.
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