alt Hacker NewsI don’t think so. With a good editor, you change the type and run the compiler which will warn you with all the locations you’ll need to edit. Then you can quickly navigate to those locations.
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scotty79 • last Monday at 1:30 PM
Yeah, tooling for strongly typed languages is way better than 20 years ago. They are getting very being usable.
> which will warn you with all the locations you’ll need to edit
This is true, but with a program built with a dynamic language, taking advantage of the fact that it's written in a dynamic language, doesn't need to make those changes at all.
I'm fan of static typing in many situations, but it's hard to deny it doesn't lead to more changes as you need to properly propagate changes.