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What is the appeal of dynamically-typed languages?

2 pointsby kornishover 6 years ago

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smt88over 6 years ago
This isn&#x27;t a great write-up for reasons explained here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;non&#x2F;ec48b0a7343db8291b92#gistcomment-1450054" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;gist.github.com&#x2F;non&#x2F;ec48b0a7343db8291b92#gistcomment...</a><p>It also assumes all static typing is nominal typing, when structural static types also exist and don&#x27;t lead to Java-like class overload.
_bxg1over 6 years ago
The author seems to conflate static typing with class-based typing for much of this. Languages like Haskell and TypeScript (and I thought Scala?) are statically typed, but have a concept of structural types that don&#x27;t require you to use classes at all. In fact this static duck-typing is, I&#x27;m pretty sure, one of Haskell&#x27;s most-advertised features.