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Java at 30: How a language designed for a failed gadget became a global powerhouse (www.zdnet.com)
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[โ€“] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I would argue that without consistent and enforced type hinting, dynamically typed languages offer very little benefit from type-checking at runtime. And with consistent, enforced type hinting, they might as well be considered actual statically typed languages.

Don't get me wrong, that's a good thing. Properly configured Python development environments basically give you both, even if I'm not a fan of the syntax.

[โ€“] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago

What's wrong with the syntax? It's just var_name: Type = value, it's very similar to Go or Rust. Things get a little wonky with generics (list[Type] or dict[Type]), but it's still similar to other languages.

One nice thing about it being runtime checked is you can accept union types, def func(param: int | float), which isn't very common in statically typed languages.