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Strongly Typed Languages Are Coming Back [XXVIII]

Or… They never left, engineers were just inexperienced.

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Strength Of Ducks

Strongly type languages generally have stricter rules around compile time, whereas weakly typed languages (or duck typed) have run-time checking.

I have been around long enough to see the to and fro of strong versus weakly typed languages, and the arguments centred not around the typing of the language — but more around the other features of the language

If nothing else, two things strongly type languages give me:

• 100% Accurate code completion — the key is the 100%
• Easier refactoring of methods and names

It just makes your code more likely to compile and run correctly — and this is a must.

The unintended consequence of this is that

• You can learn about the functions and objects that you are calling because you can see what the parameters and return types are.

And we all need a little help.

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