Ask HN: How can I get informed in the static vs. dynamic typing debate?

1•zingar•46m ago

Static typing has converted a bunch of people I know who started their careers with Ruby's dynamic typing. Nowadays they see static typing as an important guardrail for agent programming.

Clojure programmers are also into agentic programming. I wouldn't have thought it possible but I encounter Clojure people who are even _more_ into agentic programming. Yet Clojureconf is still full of what seem like good points against static typing.

I'd really like to understand this. Where do I start?

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hashim•16m ago

It seems to me that debate ended - at least in a professional capacity - with the advent of LLMs. Writing code, especially when it comes to tedious boilerplate like types, has been so abstracted away from me nowadays going back to it feels like doing maths without a calculator... or maybe even the old-fashioned human calculators.

smt88•13m ago

Strong typing is not boilerplate-heavy in all languages (ex: TypeScript)

smt88•14m ago

This debate ended a long time ago. Every language is moving toward stronger, static typing, especially JavaScript with TypeScript, but even Python.

I don’t know of any good arguments against strong, static typing. What do you think are some?

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