alt Hacker NewsLook at some of the typing present in MS COM back in the IE5/6 days and we can discuss more. I can honestly tell you - I'll take untyped languages any day of the week over that clusterfuck.
Personally - I also think people really underestimate just how much the tooling around types has improved over the last 20 years.
If I'm having to try to look up the difference between iBrowserInterface6 and iBrowserInterface5 and iBrowserInterface4... (and yes - shit like this really did exist: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/shdeprec...)
And I have no tooling for autocomplete, and the docs are shoddy, and google is just coming on the scene...
People understandable want to throw their computer out the window.
Types are great. Some forms of them were not.
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This isn't a good example at all. Those interfaces are subtypes.
completely agree. but I felt like even then it was clear that types were a good idea and the implementations were not. For instance I started programming on Java 4 or 5 and the types were pretty bad---but still it was obviously the right way to go compared to JS or, god forbid, shell.