On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 19:21:25 UTC, Nick Sabalausky
wrote:
I've heard this a lot, but I've yet to hear anyone explain
concretely how this "dynamic mindset" causes the lack of things
like static code checks and low-overhead primitives from being
actual drawbacks. Maybe it really is a case of me not "getting
I think you see it in Java too?
Restricting dicts and arrays to a single element type requires
more complicated logic in some cases.
People don't write Rpython, which is a strictly typed subset of
Python, because they have to write more complicated logic?
I could probably live with the Rpython subset, though.