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		seabrookmx 4 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rv, a new kind of Ruby management tool Many smart engineers (including Guido) disagree with you, and have added static types to Python, Javascript, Dart, Elixir, Hack and surely some I'm forgetting.

dismalaf 4 months ago [–]

I use statically typed languages. There's benefits.

There's also benefits to dynamically typed languages, namely runtime metaprogramming.

Dynamic typing + type annotations is the worst of both worlds for questionable benefit.

seabrookmx 4 months ago | [–]

> the worst of both worlds

Agree to disagree!

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