alt Hacker NewsMaybe you need graduality, sure. Plenty of systems (e.g. Typescript) have added a real type system that works gradually onto an existing system. While there are compromises to that approach, it's still a lot more effective than contracts IME.
Maybe you need graduality, sure. Plenty of systems (e.g. Typescript) have added a real type system that works gradually onto an existing system. While there are compromises to that approach, it's still a lot more effective than contracts IME.
How are well specified contracts different from type script? Typescript is just annotation. Behavior cannot change. This is annotation plus runtime examinable behavior. This approach seems conducive to static checkers.