alt Hacker NewsIt is 100 percent inevitable. Your reasoning here is illogical.
How does a statically typed language rejecting a correct program affect reliability? The two concepts are orthogonal. You’re talking about flexibility of a language but the topic is on reliability.
Let me be clear… as long as a language is Turing complete you can get it to accomplish virtually any task. In a statically typed language you have less ways to accomplish the same task then a dynamically typed language; but both languages can accomplish virtually any task. By logic a dynamically typed language is categorically more flexible than a static one but it is also categorically less reliable.
>How does a statically typed language rejecting a correct program affect reliability?
Because in some cases it will reject code that is simple and obviously correct, which will then need to be replaced by code that is less simple and less obviously correct (but which satisfies the type checker). I don't think this happens most of the time, but it does mean that static typing isn't a strict upgrade in terms of reliability. You are paying for the extra guarantees on the code you can write by giving up lots of correct programs that you could otherwise have written.