Eloquently sums up my feelings about the disadvantages of dynamic typing

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 15:26:41 +0200
"Chris" <wendlec at tcd.ie> wrote:

> +1
> 
> What can I say? For the web I have to use JavaScript, PHP and 
> Python. Imagine the amount of stupid-yet-hard-to-find bugs I've 
> had to deal with. Bugs that you only become aware of at runtime.
> 

I've gotten to the point where I just refuse to deal with PHP anymore
(And I've never been willing to jump on the AJAX-y train).

I believe as much as anyone in "whatever pays the bills", but even then
there's reasonable limits where you just have to draw the line for your
own sake.

> Am much happier with D (or Java, Objective-C). As for the 
> arguments concerning compile time, extra typing for typing, 
> c'mon, they must be kidding.
> 

Exactly. I often get the impression the static-haters have only ever
heard of C++ and Java 2.

> Not to mention increased execution speed, not only in terms of 
> script vs. binary, but also in terms of known type vs. 
> dynamically assigned type.
> 

And in terms of "cache-friendly vs ultra-cache-annihilator-3000".

And in terms of "Simple efficient array of primitives vs Let's replace
every trivial primitive of data in the entire program with a big ol'
hashtable-of-hashtables, and potentially scatter them all over
memory, all just in case some knucklehead decides he just NEEDS to go
adding members and methods to some *individual* instance of a freaking
integer."

No wonder my Apple II had more responsive text entry than most modern
web sites. Hell, I've used typewriters that were faster than some web
forms. No joke.