Comment by incomingpain
10 hours ago
>Vim vs. Emacs,
Nano has always won. Yes, vim is everywhere. I dont fathom why emacs exists.
>tabs vs. spaces
tabs make much more sense. python should fix this mistake. I guess my IDE fixes it for me?
>Mac vs. Linux,
100% linux; i tend to stick to the debian field, but certainly never actual debian. I really need to try alma; but dnf/yum/rpm and what the hell happened to centos? fedora is a mess like it always was. KDE? really we havent found one of the dozens of better DE?
>static vs. dynamic typing
Dynamic, ill never ever switch to a language that's static. I started in C++, never ever going back.
>JSON vs. YAML
JSON all the way.
Why dynamic over static?
Speaking for myself I'm static or death, BUT I can see how one might come away scarred from C++ and conflate static with the wild degree of ceremony and clunky tooling.
Nowadays the better static languages do a lot of type infererence so that a lot of that ceremony is pushed aside.
I recently did some semi-serious python work and I see some of the appeal; I definitely missed mandatory type declarations at the function argument level but barely if at all within functions.
There's a great Steve Yegge post about this topic of static/dynamic alliegence (via someone's gist because Google can't run a service long term for love or money): https://gist.github.com/cornchz/3313150