Interview at Lang.NEXT

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 2014-06-04 21:30, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> In my experience, using heavy dynamic typing throughout a program
> creates far more work (mainly debugging) than it avoids. Even in tiny
> ~100 line programs, I've spent large amounts of time tracking down bugs
> a sane compiler would have immediately pointed out with a comparatively
> negligible amount of my effort spent on typing. Aside from C++ or Java,
> it's like you say: static types are one of the easiest parts to deal with.

Yeah, static typing can be a huge advantage. Currently I'm merging the 
latest changes in DMD to my D/Objective-C branch. I have no idea what 
I'm doing and fully rely on the compiler. No way in h*ll I would even 
think about doing that without static typing.

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/Jacob Carlborg