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I think, especially in programming language communities, that there tends to be a preference towards making a static language for their compile time guarantees, and this is a pretty concrete counterargument as to why people find dynamic languages "easier to program in"

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[โ€“] sizeoftheuniverse@programming.dev 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's amazing the person who has the blog is only 18 years old, and he is writing about very abstract concepts. I am following him since he was 16, and I see a lot of potential in there.

Also, I don't agree with some of the points he raised there, but hey, when I was 18 (or 16) I was far away from his level of understanding. Things started to click for me when I was in my early 20s, not 16.

[โ€“] bitcrafter@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

You know, I wasn't that impressed by this article, but I am coming around to your point of view given that additional context.