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Why Static Typing Came Back [YouTube] (youtu.be)
submitted 1 year ago by EmDash to c/programming
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An interesting take on why dynamically typed languages became so popular and why staticly typed languages are making a comeback.

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[–] imbrucy@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Great talk and I completely agree with him. Static typing has a lot of benefits but the old style use cases had a lot of extra overhead. As languages have matured, that overhead has come down a lot and so it's not surprising that they have gained back traction recently.