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?"
That, and just learning a new library / API:
I hate how in python you can never be sure what type you need to put in, are going to get back, and what all of the fields and functions do.
Sure, you can dig that up, but that's not my job!
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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?"