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Why use a 3rd party add-on solution instead of using something better in the first place?
by xyzzy4747 2y ago
Why use a 3rd party add-on solution instead of using something better in the first place?
- ricketycricket 2y agoYou mean like Typescript, an add-on that transpiles to Javascript?
- askonomm 2y agoI'm sure they meant an actual statically typed language. I agree that dynamic languages are fun and productive ... until the codebase becomes big and complex, and then not knowing what shape any data is quickly becomes a nightmare to understand and debug.
- Alifatisk 2y ago> not knowing what shape any data is quickly becomes a nightmare to understand and debug I remember when I experienced exactly this, it kind of flipped switch in my head which made me love static typing.
- Alifatisk 2y agoRBS comes by default with Ruby, Sorbet is 3rd party.