slazer2au@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoWhat is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?message-squaremessage-square206linkfedilinkarrow-up196arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up192arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the technical hill you are willing to die on in your industry?slazer2au@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square206linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareJackbyDevlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoFrom my perspective, dynamic typing IS type corrosion!
minus-squarepetersr@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·3 hours agoType coercion = Allow types to be converted to other types automatically to perform some operations like comparison. Type corrosion = some non-standard condescending term to say that dynamic typing has no proper rigid types?
minus-squarePeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour agoIt was a typo, but I also wanted to add that type coercion is not dynamic typing, the coercion can be done statically during compile time, so it could not be the 2nd one, even if it wasn’t a typo
From my perspective, dynamic typing IS type corrosion!
Type coercion = Allow types to be converted to other types automatically to perform some operations like comparison.
Type corrosion = some non-standard condescending term to say that dynamic typing has no proper rigid types?
It was a typo, but I also wanted to add that type coercion is not dynamic typing, the coercion can be done statically during compile time, so it could not be the 2nd one, even if it wasn’t a typo
It was obviously a typo