#statictyping — Public Fediverse posts
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Today at work I learned that you can make `.d.ts` files adjacent to `.js` files and TypeScript's compiler (and IDEs) can treat it just like Ruby + RBS sidecars! 😍
#JavaScript #TypeScript #Ruby #StaticTyping #TypeHints #DynamicLanguages #Programming
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"Do it in #Rust from the beginning!" - Jon Gjengset
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type annotations are cool, but there are definitely cases when they get in the way, like traversing some unknown data structure:
context: this traverses an OBO Graph JSON to find ORCID identifiers, and would be way too complicated to get all corner cases
#typing #statictyping #python #orcid #obo #json #recursion #dynamic
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For long there has been debate about #StaticTyping vs #DynamicTyping in #programming. Frequently claims are made that static typing reduces bugs. Purely anecdotally I have not personally found that to be significantly true, and static typing can make coding slower with less flexibility (then again I am a #Tcl guy, and also prefer pure #Javascript to #TypeScript).
Here is a great read that analyses various studies made on the topic: https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/