alt Hacker NewsSpeaking as a Python programmer, no. Using types in a prototyping language is madness.
The point is you drop things such as types to enable rapid iteration which enables you to converge to the unknownable business requirements faster.
If you want slow development with types, why not Java?
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solarkraft • yesterday at 11:43 AM
because i want fast development with types.
philipallstar • yesterday at 10:55 AM
> Using types in a prototyping language is madness.
It's not a prototyping language or a scripting language or whatever. It's just a language. And types are useful, especially when you can opt out of type checking when you need to. Most of the time you don't want to be reassigning variables to be different types anyway, even though occasionally an escape hatch is nice.
Have you written any go code? it's the closest I've come to actually enjoying a type system - it gets out of your way, and loosely enforces stuff. It could do with some more convenience methods, but overall I'd say it's my most _efficient_ type system. (not necessarily the best)