Comment by drob518
2 days ago
I don’t think Rich was criticizing static types as much as saying that they aren’t giving you as much benefit as you think they are and that they complicate program evolution over time.
2 days ago
I don’t think Rich was criticizing static types as much as saying that they aren’t giving you as much benefit as you think they are and that they complicate program evolution over time.
They might not give much execution benefit and they may indeed complicate program evolution, but they DO aid readability, document-ability and refactoring!
I don't think static types (or lack thereof) complicate (or simplify) program evolution over time, bad architecture does.
Still quite the hot take.
Indeed.