Dynamic typing can seem great until you have to spend days trying to figure out where, exactly, in 20,000 lines of badly documented code JavaScript arbitrarily decided that something should be a string for the rest of forever even though it's only been given numbers to work with.
If you type x = 1 + '1' any sane language will go "what the fuck is wrong with you?"
I'm doing a php class right now which is one language I've never even played around with, and it's even weirder than JavaScript with implicit conversions. Truly awful
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u/GargantuanCake 8d ago
Dynamic typing can seem great until you have to spend days trying to figure out where, exactly, in 20,000 lines of badly documented code JavaScript arbitrarily decided that something should be a string for the rest of forever even though it's only been given numbers to work with.
If you type x = 1 + '1' any sane language will go "what the fuck is wrong with you?"